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What is phonology?
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The description of the systems and patterns of speech sound in a language
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What is phonology unconcious knowledge of?
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The sound patterns of one's language, the mental aspect of the sounds of language
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How is phonology written?
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Not in brackets, but in slash marks
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What is a syllable?
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A unit of sound consisting of a vowel and optional consonants before or after the vowel
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What are the two basic elements of a syllable?
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Onset and rime
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What does the rime consist of?
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A vowel (nucleus) plus any following consonants (coda)
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What is the onset?
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One or more consonants
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What is a consonant cluster?
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Two or more consonant sounds in sequence
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What is a phoneme?
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A distinct sound in a language, the smallest unit of sound that has a mental image and distinguishes meaning
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How does a phoneme function?
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Contrastively; there has to be something that distinguishes one phoneme from the other
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What are the three most significant features in English?
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Voice, place, manner
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How would you write the features of [b]?
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Voiced, bilabial, stop
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What is a minimal pair?
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Two words of different meaning that differ by only one phoneme; allow us to identify the phonemes of a language
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What is a minimal set?
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A group of words that are different by one phoneme (always in the same position)
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What are allophones?
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All the ways a given phoneme is articulated
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