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    ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonology, an allophone (/ˈæləfoʊn/ ; from the Greek ἄλλος, állos, 'other' and φωνή, phōnē, 'voice...
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  • In Canada, an allophone is a resident whose first language is neither French nor English. The term parallels anglophone and francophone, which designate...
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    fricatives. Although commonly appearing in languages, it is overwhelmingly an allophone restricted to a position before the labiodental consonants [f] and [v]...
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    albeit with [β] being an allophone for another consonant in both cases. In Bashkir language, it is an intervocal allophone of /b/, and it is contrastive...
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  • phonemes—each phoneme with its various allophones—constitute the surface form that is actually uttered and heard. Allophones each have technically different...
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  • voiced palatal fricative. They occur more often as allophones (such as in German, where [ç] is an allophone of the voiceless velar fricative after consonants...
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    following: allophone of /k/ in coda allophone of /p/ allophone of /l/ allophone of /ɣ/ Matateyou uses the letter for implosive /ɓ/ allophone of /r/ allophone of...
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  • languages that have it, as in English tenth. Similarly, a denti-alveolar allophone occurs in languages that have denti-alveolar stops, as in Spanish cinta...
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    a conditioned allophone of other sounds, for example as an allophone of /n/ before a uvular plosive as in Quechua, or as an allophone of /q/ before another...
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    velar nasal as a phoneme, such as the Romance languages, it occurs as an allophone of /n/ before velar consonants. This kind of assimilation can even be...
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    languages, usually alongside the voiced version, as a similar phoneme or an allophone. Proto-Indo-European *sr developed into a sound spelled ⟨ῥ⟩, with the...
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    In some languages, such as Spanish, the voiced velar approximant is an allophone of /g/ – see below. The symbol for the velar approximant originates from...
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    world's languages have /ç/ as a phoneme. The sound further occurs as an allophone of /x/ (e.g. in German or Greek), or, in other languages, of /h/ in the...
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  • tap allophone occurs in American and Australian English and in Northern Low Saxon. In American and Australian English it tends to be an allophone of intervocalic...
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  • Singles. Retrieved November 2, 2015. "Palmarès de la chanson anglophone et allophone au Québec" (in French). BAnQ. Archived from the original on August 9,...
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  • Grimm's law. In Modern Greek, the voiceless velar fricative (with its allophone, the voiceless palatal fricative [ç], occurring before front vowels) originated...
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  • considered to be phonemes: [dʒ] is an allophone of /j/ occurring after /n/ and when geminated (doubled). [ŋ] is an allophone of /n/ occurring before [k] and...
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    the letters represent. 1 [ŋ] occurred as an allophone of /n/ that was used before velars and as an allophone of /ɡ/ before nasals. 2 /s/ was assimilated...
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    compressed. See close back compressed vowel. It also occurs in Japanese as an allophone. Medumba has a compressed central vowel [ɨᵝ] where the corners of the...
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    stops may surface as spirants with various degrees of constriction. These allophones are not limited to regular fricative articulations, but range from articulations...
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  • Kwakʼwala. It may also occur as an allophone of another uvular consonant. In Kazakh, the voiced uvular stop is an allophone of the voiced uvular fricative...
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    H
    developed [h] as an allophone of /s/ or /x/ in most Spanish-speaking countries, and various dialects of Portuguese use it as an allophone of /ʀ/. 'H' is also...
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  • Thumbnail for Glottal stop
    English, it occurs phonetically in nearly all dialects of English, as an allophone of /t/ in the syllable coda. Speakers of Cockney, Scottish English and...
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    hard consonants and /i, u/ after soft ones. These vowels have several allophones, which are displayed on the diagram to the right. Russian has preserved...
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    as Greek have the sound in their consonant inventories, as phonemes or allophones. Within Turkic languages, Bashkir and Turkmen have both voiced and voiceless...
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  • variants. Tagalog has allophones, so it is important here to distinguish phonemes (written in slashes / /) and corresponding allophones (written in brackets...
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    the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles, as in most sounds. As an allophone of other rhotic sounds, [ɹ] occurs in Edo, Fula, Murrinh-patha, and Palauan...
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    /i.ə/ and /u.ə/, respectively. In other cases, [iː] and [uː] occur as allophones of, respectively, /i/ and /u/ before /r/. /y/ is phonetically long [yː]...
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  • units. The concept is somewhat broad, as it is primarily used to refer to allophones that occur in certain prosodic environments, and these environments vary...
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    nip [nɪp̚] or [nɪʔp] In RP, the lateral approximant /l/, has two main allophones (pronunciation variants): the clear or plain [l], as in light, and the...
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