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Allophones are variant forms of a sound. In English, for example, the sound 't' can be pronounced two different ways. At the beginning of a syllable, as in ''top'', it is pronounced with a burst of air ([[Aspiration (definition)|aspiration]]) transcribed <nowiki>[tʰ]</nowiki>; after an "s" sound it is pronounced without this burst of air (transcribed <nowiki>[t]</nowiki>). [tʰ] and [t] are allophones of an underlying phoneme /t/.
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Allophones are variant forms of a sound. In English, for example, the sound 't' can be pronounced two different ways. At the beginning of a syllable, as in ''top'', it is pronounced with a burst of air ([[Aspiration (definition)|aspiration]]) transcribed <nowiki>[tʰ]</nowiki>; after an "s" sound, as in ''stop'' it is pronounced without this burst of air (transcribed <nowiki>[t]</nowiki>). [tʰ] and [t] are allophones of an underlying phoneme /t/.
  
 
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
[[Phoneme (definition)]]
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==External Links==
 
==External Links==
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*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allophone
 
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allophone
 
*http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnAllophone.htm
 
*http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnAllophone.htm

Latest revision as of 22:15, 3 June 2012

Allophones are variant forms of a sound. In English, for example, the sound 't' can be pronounced two different ways. At the beginning of a syllable, as in top, it is pronounced with a burst of air (aspiration) transcribed [tʰ]; after an "s" sound, as in stop it is pronounced without this burst of air (transcribed [t]). [tʰ] and [t] are allophones of an underlying phoneme /t/.

See Also

External Links

Be careful with Wikipedia Pages, they can be edited by anyone and often contain incorrect information

References

  • Crystal, David (1999) Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford: Blackwell.