Consider the data in the table and answer the following questions. Demonstrate that your answers work with
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Consider the data in the table and answer the following questions. Demonstrate that your answers work with examples from the data.
- Is there a phonemic contrast between [f, θ, s] and [v, ð, z]? Why (not)?
- If there is no contrast, how are the allophones distributed?
- Which variant should be chosen to represent the phoneme?
[f, θ, s] | [v, ð, z] |
fæder ‘father’ | gerēafa ‘reeve’ |
findan ‘find’ | seofon ‘seven’ |
wulf ‘wolf’ | heofon ‘heaven’ |
wīf ‘woman’ | weorþan ‘become’ |
gift ‘gift’ | cweþan ‘speak’ |
þing ‘thing’ | cēosan ‘choose’ |
þrī ‘three’ | wesan ‘be’ |
morþ ‘murder’ | |
tōþ ‘tooth’ | |
sittan ‘sit’ | |
slēpan ‘sleep’ | |
giest ‘guest’ | |
wæps ‘wasp’ |
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