These entities can change due to rules applied in counter-bleeding, bleeding, or feeding order.
These entities can change due to rules applied in counter-bleeding, bleeding, or feeding order. They are composed of subunits marked with plus or minus signs within square brackets, known as "distinctive features", in a theory posed by Roman Jakobson. Their underlying representation is often shown between forward-slashes, while two segments in complementary distribution can be shown to be just one of these entities rather than a (*) minimal pair. The mental representation of one of these ignores site-specific changes such as de-aspiration or de-voicing. Divergent sounds corresponding to a single one of these are known as allophones. For 10 points, name these smallest contrastive units of linguistic sound.
These entities can change due to rules applied in counter-bleeding, bleeding, or feeding order.
phonemes [accept phones or language sounds until "forward" is read; prompt thereafter]