LINGUIST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Minimal Pair, Phoneme, Morpheme
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[ il ] [ i ] / _____ vowels. [ i ] c i / _____ [alveolar] i. If you have a word [ p t ] you can"t make it [ p :t ] and change the meaning. Be careful when talking about sounds with this stuff because the focus is more on the sounds. [alveolar] [postalveolar] / ______ [ i ] A minimal pair is two words that are identical except for one sound. If you change that one sound, the meaning changes. If you find a minimal pair, the sounds are distinct phonemes. The phonemes around them are going to tell you how to say something . Comes in the beginning of a word. Comes at the end of a word. Comes in the middle of a word. The -dom creates a different or extended meaning. Tion cannot apply to just any verb. The addition of -tion changes the word from a verb to a noun.
