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3. Segmental Phonology 3.1 Phonemes and Allophones 3.2 Phonological Rules, Distributive Features and Sound Combinations 3.1 Phonemes and Allophones 3.1.1 Phoneme Definition: the smallest linguistic unit of sound that can signal a difference in meaning. English has approximately 45 phonemes. 3.1.2 Minimal Pairs Definition: two words which are identical in every way except for one sound segment that occurs in the same place. For example: here-hair hut-heart 3.1.3 Allophones and Complementary Distribution Definition: Allophone is the variatio