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Which of the following are right?

[-cont, +cons] describes
fricatives
glides, vowels
stops, affricates

[+cont, +cons] describes
fricatives
glides, vowels
stops, affricates

[+cont, -cons] describes
fricatives
glides, vowels
stops, affricates

Note: The anterior feature is not necessarily defined for all these places of articulation.

[+cor, +ant] describes
alveolars and dentals
palato-alveolars, retroflexes
bilabials, labiodentals

[+cor, -ant] describes
alveolars and dentals
palato-alveolars, retroflexes
bilabials, labiodentals

[-cor, +ant] describes
palato-alveolars, retroflexes
alveolars and dentals
bilabials, labiodentals

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