. What are the differences between a phoneme and an allophone?
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Answer:
The difference between a phoneme and an allophone is that a phoneme is an individual unit of sound in a word, whereas an allophone is one articulation of a phoneme.
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Explanation:
Allophones are sounds, whilst a phoneme is a set of such sounds. Allophones are usually relatively similar sounds which are in mutually exclusive or complementary distribution (C.D.). If two sounds are phonetically similar and they are in C.D. then they can be assumed to be allophones of the same 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/.
A phoneme is a sound or a group of different sounds perceived to have the same function by speakers of the language or dialect in question. An example is the English phoneme /k/, which occurs in words such as cat, kit, scat, skit.