Allophones vs. Phonemes PDF

Allophones vs. Phonemes We can apply what we know now to figure out the phonemic distribution of [k], [kh], [g] in English. — Remember: voiceless oral stops are aspirated when they appear in initial position. — So we can start to make some predictions about when we will get [k] and when we will get...

Allophones vs. Phonemes We can apply what we know now to figure out the phonemic distribution of [k], [kh], [g] in English. — Remember: voiceless oral stops are aspirated when they appear in initial position. — So we can start to make some predictions about when we will get [k] and when we will get [kh]. 8 Allophones vs. Phonemes — [k], [kh], [g] in English — Which sounds are allophones of the same phoneme? (In other words, which sounds are the ‘same’ to an English speaker?) — We can visually represent the distribution like this: 9 The Same, But Different: Dogs “dog” The Same, But Different: Dogs, Phonemes, and Allophones Allophones: Phoneme: /dag/ Back to AspiraFon for a moment: We saw that English speakers consider aspirated and unaspirated stops as the same. Is this true for other languages? Hindi (India) [phal] ‘knife edge’ [pal] ‘take care of’ [kapi] ‘copy’ [kaphi] ‘ample’ Do speakers of Hindi treat [p] and [ph] as the same? How do you know?