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Dear Students,
As-Salaamu Alaykum.
Below are important Phonology definitions which you must memorize and be able to give examples for.
Best wishes,
Tarek Sida
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A phoneme is the smallest meaning-distinguishing sound in
a language.

An allophone is a variant of the same phoneme.

A minimal pair is two or more words which are identical in
form except for a contrast in o¬ne phoneme in the same position
in each word - e.g, 'bad' and 'mad' are a minimal pair.

Phonotactics is the permitted arrangement of sounds in
a language.

Assimilation is the process whereby a feature of o¬ne sound
becomes part of another during speech production.

Elision is the process of omitting a sound segment in the
pronunciation of a word - e.g., omitting [d] in "friendship."