A group of similar sounds, variations of a phenome
100
When is the phoneme /l/ light?
Before a vowel
200
Phonemes
Abstract mental units that represent sounds
200
What is meant by contrastive and non-contrastive sounds?
Two sounds are contrastive if changing the two means changing the meaning of the word
300
Complementary Distribution
Allophones of the same phoneme that occur in different positions or phonetics contexts and do not change meaning
300
Allophones are indicated with _______, while phonemes are indicated with _______.
Brackets[ ], slashes / /.
400
Free Variation
When two sounds appear in the same environment but don't make a difference in meaning
400
When two speech sounds can be interchanged in the same word position without changing meaning, they can be said to be in:
[A] Free variation
[B] Complementary Distribution
[C] Allophonic variation.
[D] Phonemic distribution.
A
500
Minimal pair and give an example
A pair of words that differ in only one sound in the same position
500
Give three differences between phonemes and allophones
significant/non-significant
unpredictable/predictable
contrastive distribution/complementary distribution
broad transcription/narrow transcription