| A | B |
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| allomorph | technical term for a variant of sound |
| minimal pairs | 2 words with different meanings are identical except for 1 sound segment in the same place |
| phoneme | class o speech sounds identified by a native speaker as the same sound |
| allophones | sounds that are perceptibly different but do not distinguish words |
| complimentary distribution | occurence of sounds in a language such that they are never found in the same phonetic environment |
| distinctive feature | when a feature distinguishes one phoneme from antoher |
| redundant/predictable features | when a feature value is predictable by a rule |
| natural classes | group of sounds in a language that satisfy a give description to the exclusion of other sounds |
| assimilation | process in which a sound becomes more like a nearby sound |
| dissimilation | rules in which a segment becomes less similar to another segment |
| feature addition | rules for features that are non-distinctive in English words |
| metathesis | reordering two sounds |
| prosodic phonology | refers to the suprasegmental features of a langauge |
| intonation | refers to the pattern of pitch movement |
| phonology | study of the way speech sounds form systems and patterns |
| phonological knowledge | what sounds are in the L1 vs. which are foreign |
