Allophones

Allophones:

• [t] in "top"

• [tʰ] in "stop."

Objective:

Students will actively engage with visual and interactive content to reinforce their understanding of allophones, making connections between text, audio, and phonetic concepts.

Allophones

phonemes

Allophones are the linguistically non-significant variants of each phoneme.

Phonemes are the linguistically significant sounds (or sets of sounds) of a language.

/P/

[P] vs [Pʰ]

80%

50%

References:

What are Allophones?

Allophones are variations of a phoneme that do not change the meaning of a word.