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Allophones | Allophone

Allophones meaning

plural of allophone

Using Allophones

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of allophone
  • In the example corpus, allophones often appears in combinations such as: allophones of, these allophones, the allophones.

Context around Allophones

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 18.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

oral 1× voiced 1× interchanged 1× nasal 1× require 1× fricative 1× suspected 1× interchangeable 1× tense 1×

Often after:

occurred 1× allographs 1×

Sentence patterns with Allophones

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

and fricative allophones 1× and nasal allophones of its 1× and the allophones for some 1× first interchanged allophones of the 1× have voiced allophones in predictable 1× of interchangeable allophones being perceived 1× of the allophones is simple 1× of these allophones have since 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a chart of 1× first interchanged allophones 1× for example english 1× for example they 1× however there may 1× in early spanish 1×

Common sentence endings:

the same phoneme 2× and fricative allophones 1× be phonetically similar 1× for the phoneme 1× given context i 1× in predictable contexts 1×

Words around Allophones

Just before it in the word index:

allophone 7 allopatric 9 allopathy 2 allopathic 5 alloparenting 3 allonzo 3

Just after it in the word index:

allophonic 17 allopolyploid 2 allopolyploids 3 allopurinol 4 allord 2 allore 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaaa 21 abductees 21 abdulahi 21 abetment 21 abhors 21 ablution 21

Corpus analysis for Allophones

  • In this selection, "allophones" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, oral, voiced, interchanged, occurred and allographs stand out and add context to how "allophones" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include and fricative allophones and and nasal allophones of its. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "allophones" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with allophones

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

It is partly uncertain where these allophones occurred. (8 words)

However, some of these allophones have since become phonemic. (9 words)

First, interchanged allophones of the same phoneme can result in unrecognizable words. (12 words)

Longer example sentences

Often, if only one of the allophones is simple to transcribe, in the sense of not requiring diacritics, then that representation is chosen for the phoneme. (26 words)

The findings and insights of speech perception and articulation research complicate the traditional and somewhat intuitive idea of interchangeable allophones being perceived as the same phoneme. (26 words)

The existence of minimal pairs is a common test to decide whether two phones represent different phonemes or are allophones of the same phoneme. (24 words)

Example sentences (16)

Therefore, by the "elsewhere" convention, the oral allophones are considered basic; nasal vowels in English are considered to be allophones of oral phonemes.

A chart of the Tamil consonant phonemes in the International Phonetic Alphabet follows: The plosives have voiced allophones in predictable contexts.

First, interchanged allophones of the same phoneme can result in unrecognizable words.

For example, English has both oral and nasal allophones of its vowels.

For example, they differ in the extent to which they require allophones to be phonetically similar.

However, some of these allophones have since become phonemic.

However, there may be several such allophones, or the linguist may prefer greater precision than this allows.

In early Spanish (but not in Catalan or Portuguese) it merged with the consonant written b (a bilabial with plosive and fricative allophones).

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It is partly uncertain where these allophones occurred.

Often, if only one of the allophones is simple to transcribe, in the sense of not requiring diacritics, then that representation is chosen for the phoneme.

Such suspected allophones/allographs are listed on a common row in the table below.

The existence of minimal pairs is a common test to decide whether two phones represent different phonemes or are allophones of the same phoneme.

The findings and insights of speech perception and articulation research complicate the traditional and somewhat intuitive idea of interchangeable allophones being perceived as the same phoneme.

The following table shows the five vowel phonemes and the allophones for some of them according to Bauer 1997.

Use of the tense allophones where the lax ones would be expected can be perceived as "pedantic".

When a specific allophone (from a set of allophones that correspond to a phoneme) must be selected in a given context (i.

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Common combinations with allophones

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "allophones" in a sentence?
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What does "allophones" mean?
Allophones means: plural of allophone
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