Differentiate Allophone and Phoneme
Differentiate Allophone and Phoneme. A phoneme is an individual unit of sound in the word. It is any of the perceptually distinct units of the sound of a specified language that distinguish one word from another. Slashes represent it. Allophone is a phonetic variation of phonemes that actually pronounces speech sounds. Brackets represent it. A phoneme is a mental abstract representation of speech sound, a mental category it is a psychological reality so whenever we are producing phonemes it only exists in our minds when we are actually speaking it that when we use allophones. The phonetics realization of a phoneme can be realized as one or more different allophones depending on the environment in which that sound appears. Allop...
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