3 It’s cold outside. Don’t forget your________ .

4 Fabio really likes this movie. He says it’s________ .

5 Almost everyone owns a pair of blue________ . They are a very popular kind of pants.

The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by "copying" a feature or a sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones _____.

A. identical
B. same
C. exactly alike
D. similar

Since /p/ and /b/ are phonetically similar, they occur in the same environments and can distinguish meaning, they are said to be ______.

A. in phonetic contrast
B. the allophones
C. in complementary distribution
D. minimal pair

A(n) ____ is a unit that is of distinctive value. It is abstract unit, a collection of distinctive phonetic features.

A. phone
B. sound
C. allophone
D. phoneme

_______ is the smallest meaningful unit of language.

Words can be classified into open class words and _____ class words.

A morpheme which can be a word by itself is called a ______ morpheme, whereas a morpheme that must be attached to another one is a ______ morpheme.

The variant forms of a morpheme are called its ______.