definition:the study of the sound patterns and sound systems of languages. It aims to discover the principles that govern the way sounds are orgnized in languages, and to explain the variations that occur.
phoneme音素:a phonological unit(音系学单位),it is a unit of distinctive value,an abstract unit,not a particular sound, but it is represented by a certain phone in certain phonetic context.
eg: the phoneme /p/ can be represented differently.
minimal pairs(最小对立体): when two different forms are identical(the same) in every way except for one sound segment which occurs in the same place in the strings, the two sound combinations are said to form a minimal pair.
eg: [t] and [d] : tin/din, tie/die
[i:] and [i] : beat/bit, bead/bid
allophones音位变体: [ ]are two differebt phones and are variants of the phoneme /p/, such variants of a phoneme are called allophones(音位变体) of the same phoneme.
phonetic similarity( 语音相似性): the allophones of a phoneme must bear some phonetic resemblance(语音相似)
free variants(自由变体) and free variation(自由变异)
Apart from complementary distribution, a phoneme may sometimes have free variants
Free variation is also seen in regional differences.Either, direction.
distinctive features区别性特征