How do you use Allophonic in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like phoneme, plus the exact meaning.
Allophonic in a sentence
Allophonic meaning
Of or pertaining to an allophone.
Synonyms of Allophonic
Using Allophonic
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to an allophone.
- Useful related words include: phoneme.
- In the example corpus, allophonic often appears in combinations such as: allophonic variation, partly allophonic, of allophonic.
Context around Allophonic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 5 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Allophonic
- In this selection, "allophonic" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, partly, special, either, variation, pronunciations and distinction stand out and add context to how "allophonic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include allophonic variation may and applied before allophonic rules. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "allophonic" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with allophonic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
At the end of syllables, it may represent special allophonic pronunciations. (11 words)
To accompany the recording there are three transcriptions: orthographic, phonemic and allophonic. (12 words)
When they are realized without much allophonic variation, a simple broad transcription is used. (14 words)
The fronted variant caused by umlaut was originally allophonic (a variant sound automatically predictable from the context), but it later became phonemic (a separate sound in its own right) when the context was lost but the variant sound remained. (39 words)
Some (for example, Herbert Penzl) citation have suggested that the vowels must have been modified without being indicated for lack of a lack of proper symbols and/or because the difference was still partly allophonic. (35 words)
U-umlaut U-umlaut is more common in Old West Norse in both phonemic and allophonic positions, while it only occurs sparsely in post-runic Old East Norse and even in runic Old East Norse. (35 words)
Example sentences (17)
Allophonic variation may be conditioned, in which case a certain phoneme is realized as a certain allophone in particular phonological environments, or it may be free in which case it may vary randomly.
At the end of syllables, it may represent special allophonic pronunciations.
Essentially, an allophonic distinction developed in the tones, whereby the tones in syllables with voiced initials were pronounced differently from those with voiceless initials.
Examples English main There are many allophonic processes in English, like lack of plosion, nasal plosion, partial devoicing of sonorants, complete devoicing of sonorants, partial devoicing of obstruents, lengthening and shortening vowels, and retraction.
It is either allophonic or phonemic, and may be analyzed as an underlying consonant cluster.
Only languages which have allophonic differences associated with grammatical boundaries have juncture as a phonological element.
On the other hand, umlaut may have still been partly allophonic, and the loss of the conditioning sound may have triggered an "un-umlauting" of the preceding vowel.
Relation with phonology Until the 1950s, many phonologists assumed that neutralizing rules generally applied before allophonic rules.
Since nasal vowels are phonemic, it simplifies the picture somewhat to assume that nasalization in occlusives is allophonic.
Some (for example, Herbert Penzl) citation have suggested that the vowels must have been modified without being indicated for lack of a lack of proper symbols and/or because the difference was still partly allophonic.
The fronted variant caused by umlaut was originally allophonic (a variant sound automatically predictable from the context), but it later became phonemic (a separate sound in its own right) when the context was lost but the variant sound remained.
The onset of the pre-/l/ diphthong in 'fold' is slightly more back and rounded than that in 'cloak', though the allophonic transcription does not at present indicate this.
There is a wide range of allophonic dispersion in the set of words containing /uː/ (i.
To accompany the recording there are three transcriptions: orthographic, phonemic and allophonic.
Typically, languages with a small phoneme inventory allow for quite a lot of allophonic variation.
U-umlaut U-umlaut is more common in Old West Norse in both phonemic and allophonic positions, while it only occurs sparsely in post-runic Old East Norse and even in runic Old East Norse.
When they are realized without much allophonic variation, a simple broad transcription is used.
Common combinations with allophonic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- allophonic variation 3×
- partly allophonic 2×
- of allophonic 2×
- and allophonic 2×