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1.    A phoneme is the smallest, ___________ unit in the sound system of a language.

1.    A ___________ is a pair of words identical in every way

except for one single sound segment.

1.    The allophones of a phoneme are said to be in ______________

1.    The basic characteristic of a ______ consonant is that the air escapes through the nose.

1.    In the production of an _________ the articulators

approach each other but do not get sufficiently close to each other to produce a complete consonant.

1.    A ________ consonant is one that forms a syllable on its own, like /n/ in the English word eaten.

1.    /r/ is called the _______ due to the fact that in its production the tongue is curled back with the tip raised.

1.    There are four phases in the production of a plosive: [1] closing phase, [2] ________ phase, [3] release phase, and [4] post-release phase.

1.    An affricate must be formed by a plosive and a fricative the

place of articulation of both must be the same, i.e. the plosive and the fricative are made with the same articulators. In other words, they must be __________

1.    __________ refer to such features as stress, pitch, rhythm,

intonation, and other features that always accompany the production of segmentals.