Consider the data in the table and answer the following questions. Demonstrate that your answers work with examples from the data.

1. Is there a phonemic contrast between [f, θ, s] and [v, ð, z]? Why (not)?
2. If there is no contrast, how are the allophones distributed?
3. 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’