SEGMENTAL PHONEMES
PART II
Allophone
• Greek:
“OTHER” +
“VOICE,SOUND”
• The way speaker
of a language
hears different
sounds as
version of the
same sound
What an Allophone?
•Variants of a phoneme
• In linguistics, an audibly distinct variant of a phoneme, such as the different pronunciations
•NOTE: the use of allophone does not change the meaning or a word.
Example
/p/ and
/ph/ or the
phoneme /p/
Example
Drills: Give the phoneme
1. Tar and Star
2.Lane and Language
3.Kite and sky
4.input
1. /t/
2. /n/
3. /k/
4. /n/
Complimentary Distribution
• Phonemes pronounced
differently in different
environment
Free Variation
• Phoneme pronounced
differently in the same
environment
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