LINA01H3 Midterm: Term Test 1 (3/3) - Fall 2017
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Every word in the sentence has a /t/ allophone. Speakers don"t know they are pronouncing the letter t a different way this is not a learned rule; it"s an unconscious mental rule. In the mental lexicon, the sounds belong to the same phoneme, /p/ o. In actuality, it"s pronounced in 2 different ways. You can"t ask a speaker if 2 sounds belong to the same phoneme because they"re not aware of it: finding this out is the mystery phonologists face. 2 phones can be found in 3 types of distribution: contrastive distribution - separate phonemes. Looking at data for sounds [x] and [y]: Pear and pair differ in meaning, they have the same number of sounds, and their spelling is different: but they are identical in all phones, so they can"t be considered a minimal pair. Near minimal pairs5. 1: a pair that would be minimal except for irrelevant differences. They occur in the same immediate environment.
