A linguistic (1) is a linguistic item which has identifable (2), which are the different forms which can be used in an environment. For example, words like singing and fshing are sometimes pronounced as singin’ and fshin’ . The final sound in these words may be called the linguistic (3) (ng) with its two (4) [ŋ] in singing and [n] in singin’ . Another example of a linguistic (5) can be seen in words like farm and far . These words are sometimes given r -less pronunciations; in this case we have the linguistic (6) (r) with two (7) [r] and Ø (i.e., ‘zero,’ or ‘null’).