| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| forming | Articulate (a word, speech sound, or other linguistic unit) |
| features | A distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit, esp. a speech sound or vocabulary item, that serves to distinguish it from others of the same type |
| alternants | An alternative form of a word or other linguistic unit; a variant |
| unmarked | (of a word or other linguistic unit) Having a more general meaning or use than a corresponding marked term |
| phonemes | any minimal unit of speech sound that distinguishes one word from another |
| phoneme | any minimal unit of speech sound that distinguishes one word from another |
