Phonemes and allophones: Put
these descriptions in the correct columns.
- a. are always phonetically similar
- b. are not necessarily phonetically similar
- c. the way in which sounds are stored in the minds of native speakers
- d. the way in which sounds are actually pronounced
- e. are in predictable and complementary distribution when they belong
to the same phoneme
- f. are "official members" of a language's sounds system
(for example, there are about 44 of these in English)
- g. change word meaning if they are changed
- h. do not change word meaning if switched
- i. are indicated with /slashes/
- j. are indicated with [brackets]
- k. are underlying mental representations of sounds
- l. contrast with other sounds in the same language
- m. are surface representations
- n. are variants of a phoneme
- o. are perceived to be different sounds by native speakers of a language;
native speakers can easily hear the difference
- p. are not perceived to be different sounds by native speakers of
a language; native speakers cannot easily hear the difference
- q. can be discovered using minimal pair tests
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