Phonology (cardbox)

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  Minimal pair

  A *minimal pair* of 2 different words - with contrasting ...
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  English /t/ realization

  /t/ can appear as [ʔ] if it is followed by a vowel or is ...
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  English /l/ realization

  /l/ appears as [dark l] if it follows a vowel like /a/ or ...
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  What is Phonology?

  - Phonology studies the sound structure of a particular ...
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  What are /Phonemes/?

  - Can be thought of as an "underlying representation" of a ...
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  Phonemes are particular to a language. Examples!

  - [l] and [r] are distinctive in English (low vs. row), but ...
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  Universal Phonology

  The approach to describe phoneme differences for all human ...
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  Relevance of context to the interpretation of speech sounds?

  Two phonetically identical utterances may have different ...
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  Suprasegmental phonology, prosody

  The study of linguistically relevant properties of speech ...
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  Name a vowel feature that is contrastive in Italian

  The distinction between close and open-mid (close front ...
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  Name two consonants that are in complementary distribution ...

  - [ŋ] and [n] - [ŋ] only appears before velar plosives, ...