What is the difference between a phoneme and an allophone?
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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.
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A difference between the two is that changing the phoneme changes the meaning of the word, whereas changing the allophone changes the sound of the realization of word but does not change the meaning of the word. ... In linguistics, a phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in speech.
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