8. Allophones are a group of several phones.
The variants of a phoneme are called allophones.
Allophone
9. When a group of words
can be differentiated
each one from the
others, by changing
one phoneme
Two identical sounding
words except for one
phoneme, which occurs
in the same position in
both words
Focus on sounds not on
spelling
Minimal Pair Minimal Sets
11. same number of
sounds
identical in every
sound except for
one
different sounds
must be in the
same position in
each word
words with
different
meanings
Four Golden Rules about
Minimal Pairs and Sets
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