Allophones

1. non-linguistic metaphor on Allophone

1.1. superman and Clark

1.1.1. they never see at the same place at the same time

2. examples

2.1. Another example of a phoneme is /p/ as in the word “spin” or as in the word “pin;” the allophone in pin is aspirated (causing it to sound almost like a “phi”), whereas the allophone in “spin” is not, and sounds like “pih.”

3. characteristics

3.1. non-significant

3.2. predictable

3.3. complementary distribution

3.4. Narrow transcription

4. what is?

4.1. A member of a set of related speech sounds ( i, e.... an allophone is a member of a phoneme. In simple words the phonetic variations of a phoneme category are called allophones.

5. TYPES

5.1. free variation is shown by some allophones. These are called free-variation allophones. It means that you cannot predict which variant appears in this environmentl

5.2. complementary allophones. These are scenarios in which allophones are dependent on the phonetic environment in which the phoneme exists. You can’t select your personal preference here.