Phoneme and allophone

In phonology, an allophone is one of multiple possible spoken sounds – or phones – used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language.

Allophones! NOT in complementary distribution: can both be present at the same time: allophones of different phonemes. Crucial Concept 4:

2024年3月12日 — Allophones are the linguistically non-significant variants of each phoneme. In other words a phoneme may be realised by more than one speech ...

2020年12月3日 — If two words differ only by the two sounds in question, like pin/bin, then they are separate phonemes. If they are predictably different, like ...

2021年3月4日 — When more than one actual sound is perceived as the same phoneme, the sounds are called allophones of the phoneme. The symbol for the phoneme ...

2021年12月22日 — Yes, if you swap one sound for the other and the meaning of the word/morpheme changes or disappears, that's evidence that the candidate phones ...