When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment that occurs in the same place in the string, then the two words are called minimal pairs. Sip and zip are a minimal pair, as are fine and vine, and veal and leaf.

The phonological features that occur above the level of individual sounds are called suprasegmetal features. Discuss the main suprasegmental features, illustrating with examples how they function in the distinction of meaning.

What is the goal of sociolinguistics?

phoneme

compounding

apocope

bound morpheme

finite clause

psycholinguistics

haplology

morphological rules