Wikipedia: History of Allophone

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An allophone is one of several similar speech sounds: an allophone can be thought of as a variant of a phoneme. Each allophone is the contextually specific implementation of phoneme, and phoneme is the (language dependent) smallest distinguishable unit of sound.

An allophone is one of several similar speech sounds belonging tho a phoneme. Each allophone is the contextually specific implementation of a phoneme.

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A phoneme itself, however, is really too abstract and context variant to have a simple frequency decomposition. A phoneme as one of the abstract signals of the phonetic system of a language
corresponds to a set of similar speech sounds which are perceived by speakers of the language to be a single distinctive sound in that language.

A phoneme itself, however, is really too abstract and context variant to have a simple frequency decomposition. A phoneme as one of the abstract signals of the phonetic system of a language corresponds to a set of similar speech sounds which are perceived by speakers of the language to be a single distinctive sound in that language.

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See Phonology, Phonetics, and voice production.

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