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Distinctiveness

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The property that makes it possible to distinguish between words.

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Minimal pairs

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Pairs of words that are the same length and differ only in one sound.

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Phoneme

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A meaning-distinguishing speech sound.

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Allophones

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Different variations of the same phoneme.

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Sound system

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The set of all phonemes of a language.

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Distinctive features

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Smaller elements phonemes are built up from.

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Assimilation

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The process in which phonemes are adapted to become not similar to one another.

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Morphophonology

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The subfield of phonology that concerns itself with the description of sound adaptations that occur when morphemes are being chained together.

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Allomorph

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Alternative forms of one single morpheme.

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Alphabetic

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The writing system in which the key principle is that each individual speech sound is represented by a separate letter symbol.

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Phonology

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The sub-discipline of linguistics that looks at the production of sounds and their physical properties.