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f901c92b44 Exercises Allophones Fijian Complementary distribution .. [aspirated p] and [p as in pit] are only allophones of the same phoneme /p/. ^ a b Clark, John Ellery; Yallop, Colin; Fletcher, Janet (2007). The word complementary actually refers to the fact that the contexts in which the allophones of a phoneme appear can never be the same and they cover the whole range of possible environments in which the sound can occur (for an analogous situation think of complementary angles in geometry). Compare the English and American pronunciations of "dance". See also What is contrast in identical environments? What is contrast in analogous environments? What is complementary distribution? . Phonetics and Phonology Focus and Content PhonemesAndAllophones ComplementaryDistributionAndFreeVariation . If, on the other hand, p is not syllable-initial and is preceded by s as in spill, we can safely predict that the unaspirated variant of p will occur. Do you feel a difference? pill spill till still kill skill Did you realize, that there is a burst or puff of air after the /p/ in pill, till, and kill, that is absent in spill, still, and skill? The feature that makes the difference between the plosive sounds in pill, till, kill and spill, still, skill is called aspiration (the period between the release of the closure of a consonant and the start of the vocal cord activity for the vowel that comes after it.
Context for this page: Concept module: free variation In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): F In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Contents 1 Examples 2 Further description 3 See also 4 References . pp.110, 11618. General Linguistics Theory, Model, Method Phonetics and Phonology Focus and Content Preliminaries Airstream Mechanisms Describing Sounds Consonant Sounds VowelSounds Phonemes and Allophones Complementary distribution and Free variation Phonological Rules and their structure Distinctive Features Syllables and Syllable Structure Stress Suprasegmental Phonology Exercises Tools and Extras Morphology Syntax Semantics Pragmatics Selected Subfields History of English Syntactic Theory Cognitive Approaches Language and Media Sociolinguistics Theories and Methods in Linguistics . The two sounds can be referred to as allophones. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. In other words, in a given context X only a certain allophone will occur, while in another context Y, another allophone is expected to occur and X and Y are the only contexts in which the allophones can occur. What is free variation? . However, only a very small proportion of English words show such variations. Discussion Free variation may occur between allophones or phonemes.
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