However, the allophone phenomenon becomes obvious when speakers switch languages.
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As soon as it acquires phonemic role, it is not an allophone any longer.
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It may be considered coronal because of its coronal voiceless allophone.
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Vowels may occur nasalized as an allophone of the nasal consonants in certain positions.
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The usual allophone is further forward in New South Wales than Victoria.
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Any Marshallese vowel can also have an asyllabic semivowel allophone.
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Also, to clarify, an allophone is any variant of a phoneme.
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Because the choice of allophone is seldom under conscious control, people may not realize they exist.
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Here, one allophone is clearly assigned to two phonemes.
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(linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
(allophonic) pertaining to allophones
In phonology, an allophone (/u02C8u00E6lu0259fou028An/; from the Greek: u1F04u03BBu03BBu03BFu03C2, u00E1llos, "other" and u03C6u03C9u03BDu03AE, phu014Dnu0113, "voice, sound") is one of a set of multiple possible spoken sounds (or phones) or signs used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language. For example, (as in pin) and (as in spin) are allophones for the phoneme /p/ in the English language...
In Quebec, an allophone is a resident, usually an immigrant, whose mother tongue or home language is neither English nor French . The term is also sometimes used in other parts of Canada. ...
(Allophones) Variations on phones. Represent slight acoustic variations of the basic sound unit.
(Allophones) are different forms of a sound of a language that are not meaningful for speakers of the language. In English, for example, there are two L sounds, a "light L" in leaf and a "dark L" in wool, but if they were exchanged, the result would be a bad accent, not new English words. ...
Allophones are alternative pronunciations of phonemes in a particular language that never affect the meaning. ...
One of a set of nondistinctive varieties of a single phoneme.
Any one of the vairous possible pronunciations of a particular phoneme. These variances are usually determined by the phoneme's position in a word. For example, there are subtle variations in the pronunciation of the phoneme /p/ in the words: pill, spill, lip. ...