Rules of Complementary Distribution of Phones Are Concerned with

question 31

Multiple Choice

Rules of complementary distribution of phones are concerned with

• A)what is physically possible given the human vocal apparatus.
• B)the sounds that linguists have encountered in human languages all over the world.
• C)patterns in the occurrence of allophones of a phoneme.
• D)discovering minimal pairs and using them to identify phonemes in a particular language.

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