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phoneme

sound assigned to meaning, if changed, so does the meaning

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Minimal pairs

Two words that have different meanings and they differ in only one sound

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contrastive distribution

separate sounds occur in the same environment

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Allophones

A set of speech sounds that are perceived to be variants of the same sound

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complementary distribution

Allophones don’t occur in the same environments

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Same environment, same meaning

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