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. |
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. |
See Phonology, Phonetics, and voice production. |
See Phonology, Phonetics, and voice production. |