Phonology Flashcards

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What is phonology?

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Study of sound patterns and their meanings

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Phoneme

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Smallest abstract unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another

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Allophone

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Different sound of the same phoneme in different words
e.g “t” sound in “hit”, “tip”, “little”

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The actual realization of phoneme in speech?

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The sound

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N. S Trubetzkoy

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“Principles of Phonology”
Theory based on the notion of distinctive features on the basis of which the phoneme create opposition with one another

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