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Phonology

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  • What are the speech sounds?
    They are the consonant and vowel sounds.
  • What is the difference between a phoneme and an allophone?
    The phoneme carries meaning but the allophone doesn't.
  • What is an allophone?
    It's a variation of a phoneme.
  • What is a phoneme?
    It's the smallest distinctive sound of a language.
  • What is the articulatory system?
    It's the group of organs involved in the production of speech sounds.
  • What are the three branches of phonetics?
    Auditory, acoustic, and articulatory
  • What do we call the organs involved in the production of speech sounds?
    Articulators
  • What is phonology?
    It's the study of how the sounds function within a language.
  • What is a minimal pair?
    It's a pair of words that differs in one single phoneme.
  • What is phonetics?
    It's the study of the physical properties of the speech sounds.