...In phonetics, an allophone (from the , állos, "other" and φωνή, phōnē, "voice, sound") is one of several similar speech sounds (phones) that belong to the same phoneme. A phoneme is an abstract unit of speech sound that can distinguish words: That is, changing a phoneme in a word can produce another word. Speakers of a particular language perceive a phoneme as a distinctive sound in that language. An allophone is not distinctive, but rather a variant of a phoneme; changing the allophone will not change the meaning of a word, but the result may sound non-native, or be unintelligible. (There is debate over how real, and how universal, phonemes really are. See phoneme for details.) Read full entry
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- ... see Allophone (disambiguation) ... In phonetics, an allophone (from the Greek: ἄλλος, állos, ... a phoneme with an allophone. 3 See also. 4 External ...
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- allophone ( ) n. Linguistics . A predictable phonetic variant of a phoneme. ... 2 Representing a phoneme with an allophone. 3 See also. 4 External links ...
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Most allophonic variation is complementary - i.e. the allophones are distributed such that they do not overlap. For example, the unaspirated allophone of /p/ in English occurs after voiceless sibilants but not in other positions. Allophonic variation is determined therefore by the place or manner of articulation of the realisation of the phoneme in question or of neighbouring phonemes. In Standard British English, the 'dark' allophone of /l/ occurs only in syllable-final position and is in complementary distributiuon with the 'light' /l/ allophone which occurs in syllable-initial or -medial position. |
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what we mean of allophone?
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one of two or more variants of
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is shwa vowel a phoneme or an |
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Schwa is mostly an allophone of vowels in unstressed syllables (compare MAN with WOMAN). Tho, schwa has some phonemic value in single syllable words (e.g., duck, love, etc.). So, it's open for debate but I'd consider it an allophone--Especially in English. Lisyunho^^: You're mistaking an allophone with a diphthong. |
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