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 Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:33 pm
Post subject: Allophones? anypne?? |
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| What are allophones of a single phoneme? |
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 4:55 am
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The /s/ phoneme of the plural morpheme in English has three allophones (three phonetic realisations) that are phonologically dependent (they depend on the previous sounds of the word):
Lock-lock[s]
Love-love[z]
Loss-loss[iz]
Once this said, we may also state that the plural morpheme in English has three (or more) allomophs:
/s/ which is the most common
/0/ which happens in sheep, for instance
/umlaut/, like in men
/other/, like oxen, symposia, etc.
Neat, eh?
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:57 am
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| Thank you that was very helpfulll |
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Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:41 pm
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[s] and [z] and [ᶚ] are separate phonemes in English, which can all be represented orthographically (in spelling), by the letter 's' - for example, in 'locks', 'lives' (more than one life) and 'pleasure'.
One way to determine between phonemes and allophones is by looking for minimal pairs:
[sӕp] 'sap' and
[zӕp] 'zap' minimal pair distinguishes [s] and [z] as phonemes - they contrast in the same environment.
In Korean [ɾ] (flap) and [l] appear allophonically - [ɾ] in syllable onset, [l] in syllable coda. They do not contrast in the same environment or form minimal pairs - they are in complementary distribution. The same occurs, in Korean, with [s] and [ ᶘ ], with [ ᶘ ] appearing before [i] (+high, +front vowel) - the [s] becomes palatalised to [ ᶘ ] before the high front vowel.
It is difficult to find allophones in English (just off the top of my head, at least), because English has a lot of phonemes to represent different sounds - a good example would be the aspiration of voiceless stops [pʰ], [tʰ] and [kʰ] word-initial, which could be pronounced without aspiration and mean the same thing, ie not form minimal pairs.
[pʰliz] - [pliz] both still mean 'please' |
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Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:16 pm
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| /t/ has several allophones, for instance, the aspirated /t/ in "tin", the flap in "butter", and the unreleased /t/ as pronounced by many in final position, e.g., "cat". |
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Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:11 pm
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JohnDillinger43 wrote:
/t/ has several allophones, for instance, the aspirated /t/ in "tin", the flap in "butter", and the unreleased /t/ as pronounced by many in final position, e.g., "cat".
Another allophone of /t/ is the glottal stop, e.g. in the word "kitten".
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Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:36 am
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English also has allophones of /l/, but because they're allophones and we're so used to thinking of them together, it's hard to hear. An Irish speaker would hear the /l/ in "call" as a broad l and the /l/ in "lean" as a slender l.
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