SEGMENTAL PHONEMES

PART II

Allophone

• Greek:

“OTHER” +

“VOICE,SOUND”

• The way speaker

of a language

hears different

sounds as

version of the

same sound

What an Allophone?

•Variants of a phoneme

• In linguistics, an audibly distinct variant of a phoneme, such as the different pronunciations

•NOTE: the use of allophone does not change the meaning or a word.

Example

/p/ and

/ph/ or the

phoneme /p/

Example

Drills: Give the phoneme

1. Tar and Star

2.Lane and Language

3.Kite and sky

4.input

1. /t/

2. /n/

3. /k/

4. /n/

Complimentary Distribution

• Phonemes pronounced

differently in different

environment

Free Variation

• Phoneme pronounced

differently in the same

environment