Phonology I

What is a phoneme?

• It is two vowels.

• It's a concrete realization of a sound.

• It's a special kind of consonants.

• It's an abstract category.

This is the way we indicate a phoneme: [l] .

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The English r-sound is one example of the abstract category of phonemes.

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The concrete realizations of a phoneme are called phones.

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The realization of a phoneme depends on the phonetic context it occurs in.

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Phonemes are the smallest meaning-distinguishing units in a language.

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How do we call different phones of one phoneme?

• cellophones

• pluriphones

• multiphones

• allophones