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two souns are contrastive when...
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exchanging them
changes the meaning of the word |
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minimal pairs
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Two (or more) words that differ only by a single
sound in the same position and that have different meanings |
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sun v. sum
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minimal pair
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messy v. meshy
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minimal pair
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why a minimal pair?...
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contrast, unpredictable, and belong to different phonemes
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phoneme
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class o speech sounds identified by a native speaker as the same sound; a mental entity or category related to various allophones by phonoogical rules
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allophone
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differet phonetic realizations of the same phoneme
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Complementary distribution:
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When two (or
more) phonetically similar sounds never occur in exactly the same environment, but are in mutually-exclusive environments |
