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Phonology is about (2 things)
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how sounds are counted and organized in the mind of a speaker of a language.
Which regularities determine which sounds are allowed (or not allowed) to combine in a language |
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Phoneme
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a mental unit of sounds, which is part of the grammar of a language..written with slashes
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Allophone
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the realizations of a phoneme in a given environment
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assimilation
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a process that causes one sound to become more similar to a neighboring sound
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dissimilation
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a process that causes one sound to become more different from a neighboring sound
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deletion
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the process that removes a sound from an underlying form
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metathesis
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the process by which the linear order of two sounds changes
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