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Linguist: Plosives and fricatives are two classes of consonants. A "voicing contrast" is a distinction between two consonants that are identical except that one is voiced and the other is unvoiced. In language family X, languages with voicing contrasts in their fricatives always have voicing contrasts in their plosives.
This means that in that family, any given language has a voicing contrast in its fricatives _______ it has a voicing contrast in its plosives. In other words, a given language in that family lacks any voicing contrasts in its plosives _______ it lacks any such contrasts in its fricatives. Select for First blank the word or phrase that most logically completes the statement with the first blank. And select for Second blank the word or phrase that most logically completes the statement with the second blank. Make only two selections, one in each column.
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| Passage Statement | Analysis & Implications |
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| "Plosives and fricatives are two classes of consonants" |
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| "A 'voicing contrast' is a distinction between two consonants that are identical except that one is voiced and the other is unvoiced" |
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| "In language family X, languages with voicing contrasts in their fricatives always have voicing contrasts in their plosives" |
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