Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Linguistics A predictable phonetic variant of a phoneme. For example, the aspirated t of top, the unaspirated t of stop, and the tt (pronounced as a flap) of batter are allophones of the English phoneme /t/.
- noun Canadian A person whose native language is other than French or English.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any one of two or more speech sounds that considered variants of the same phoneme. .
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- noun linguistics Any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a
phoneme . - noun Canada A person whose
mother tongue is neither English nor French.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
Etymologies
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Examples
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This unique PQ ad reaches out to anglophone and allophone voters in Quebec by expoliting the left/right divide in Quebec politics.
Archive 2007-05-01 uncorrectedproofs 2007
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Once the sibilant disappeared, it would be all too easy for even a native speaker to get confused between a historical phonetic k an allophone of voiced *gʰ following a sibilant and the homophonous phoneme *k.
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If one thinks of these roots on both the phonemic and phonetic levels, then one understands the resultant phonetic t(ʰ) as merely an allophone of *dʰ following *s (or perhaps more specifically tautosyllabic *s?)
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009
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In contrast, a root that shows a devoiced stop but which confuses the allophone with the homophonous phoneme should instead properly pair with another unvoiced stop.
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009
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Once the sibilant disappeared, it would be all too easy for even a native speaker to get confused between a historical phonetic k an allophone of voiced *gʰ following a sibilant and the homophonous phoneme *k.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Internally *s has z as an allophone before voiced stops and possibly word finally.
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009
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As a mechanism it isn't without problems, I admit: typically (in the examples I've seen, anyway) dissimilation leads to the substitution of another phoneme, not to the insertion of one (or the introduction of a new allophone).
Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops 2009
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I couldn't be moved to reconstruct an extra phoneme because it seemed to me to mitigate against peak theoretical efficiency i.e. it was Occam's-Razor-unfriendly but I had to concede that there was at least an added voiced allophone of *s at work.
Nominative Lengthening and a reinterpretation of Szemerenyi's Law 2008
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In other words, [ss] is an allophone of *s and [tt] is an allophone of *t until Voicing turns these sounds into different phonemes, *z and creaky *d̰.
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I'm not adding extra phonemes or phonation types at all, only allophone variants.
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June 25, 2013