The relationship between the allophonic representation of a phoneme and the underlying phoneme itself – or whether a sound changes between the mental
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What are natural classes?
a group of sounds that share one or more similarity to the exclusion of other sounds
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What is dissimiliation?
when sounds become less similar
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What is non-contrastive sounds & complementary distribution?
non-contrastive sounds - two sounds that can be interchanged in a word and the meaning of the word does not change
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obstruents versus sonorants
obstruents have a complete obstruction of airflow, sonorants have a more open passage of airflow
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What is insertion?
when you insert a sound
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What is non-contrastive sounds & complementary distribution?
words in complementary distribution are allophones of the same phoneme; non-contrastive sounds - two sounds that can be interchanged in a word and the meaning of the word does not change
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What is an obstruent?
stops, fricatives, affricates
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What is deletion?
when you take away a sound
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What is contrastive sounds & contrastive distribution?
contrastive sounds - two sounds that when alternated, change the meaning of a word; words in contrastive distribution are allophones of different phonemes
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What is a sibilant?
fricative + affricates with alveolar or post-alveolar place of articulation
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What is a minimal pair?
two words that differ in only one sound or one phone; minimal pairs only occur for sounds in contrastive distribution – NOT complementary distribution