Phonology

Question 1

funtion of speech sounds

Answer 1

distinguish between meanings

Question 2

minimal pairs

Answer 2

teach and reach

Question 3

phoneme

Answer 3

abstract linguistic unit at the level of sound to
distinguish between linguistic forms with different meanings.

Question 4

allophone

Answer 4

one of several realizations of a phoneme

Question 5

complementary distribution

Answer 5

clear and dark l

Question 6

distinctive features (consonants)

Answer 6

• voicedness
• place of articulation
• manner of articulation

Question 7

discriptive features (vowel)

Answer 7

• positon of the fongue (horizontal)
• positon of the tongue (vertical)
• length