Russian is an Indo-European language of the Slavic family, spokenin Russia. Determine from the following Russian data whether the low front [a] and the low back [a] complement each other as allophones of the same phoneme or whether they are in contrast as allophones of separate phonemes. If they are allophones of separate phonemes, provide evidence for your claim. If they are in complementary distribution, pick one allophone as the basic sound, and give the conditioning phonetic contexts for its allophones. [pJ], [tj], [dJ], [zj],and [Ij] are palatalized consonants. a. [alt] 'viola f. [trava] grass'
b. [tak] 'so' g. [d'ad'a] 'uncle'
c. [p'atka) 'heel h. m'at'] 'to crumple'
d. (mat) 'mother' i. (vaj] 'your (plural)
e. [p'at') 'five' j. [z'at') 'son-in-law'