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What does phonetics study?
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Phonetics describes the physical properties of speech sounds, including their articulation, acoustic signal, and perception.
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What does phonology study?
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Phonology studies how a language organizes sounds into categories and patterns.
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What is a phoneme?
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A phoneme is a contrastive sound category that can distinguish words; English /p/ and /b/ distinguish “pat” from “bat.”
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What is an allophone?
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An allophone is a context-dependent or otherwise non-contrastive realization of a phoneme. English /p/ is typically aspirated in “pin” but not after /s/ in “spin.”
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What do slashes and square brackets conventionally distinguish?
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Slashes mark a phonological representation, while square brackets conventionally mark a more specific phonetic realization.
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How can syllables, stress, and intonation help listeners?
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Syllables, stress, and intonation are sound patterns larger than individual consonants and vowels; they can help locate word boundaries and distinguish meanings.
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What is a morpheme?
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A morpheme is a minimal linguistic unit that pairs a form with meaning or grammatical function.
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How do free and bound morphemes differ?
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A free morpheme can stand alone, as “book” can; a bound morpheme must attach to another element, as plural “-s” does in “books.”
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What does inflection do?
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Inflection marks grammatical information without usually creating a new dictionary word, as “walk” → “walked” marks past tense.
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What are allomorphs?
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Allomorphs are different forms of the same morpheme. The English plural ending sounds different in “cats,” “dogs,” and “buses,” but marks plural in each.
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What is the mental lexicon?
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The mental lexicon is a person’s organized knowledge of familiar words and other lexical units, supporting both comprehension and production.
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How does context help interpret an ambiguous word like “bank”?
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A word’s intended meaning depends on surrounding words and the situation; context helps resolve which meaning of “bank” is intended.
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