Some more on allophones Question: do we have to mark light l? Is light l an allophone at all?

You can look at the idea of phonemes and allophones in two ways:

You can look at te idea of phonemes and allophones in two ways 1.There is a “normal” variety of every phoneme, for instance l, and there are variations on this norm – for instance and. 2.All allophones are equally “normal”. The phoneme /l/ has three (at least) allophones: l, and.

phoneme allophone This slide is from 08 Phonemes.ppt, which you should check out08 Phonemes.ppt to jog your memory!

Do all phonemes have allophones? If you accept alternative 2 – all the allophones of a phoneme are equally “normal” – then that means that the phoneme itself never appears: instead of the phoneme, only one of the allophones appears. In other words, the phoneme is not “real” – only the allophones are real.

So if we find a phoneme which does not seem to vary at all in speech, we would say that this phoneme only has one allophone: Do all phonemes have allophones? always

So if we find a phoneme which does not seem to vary at all in speach, we would say that this phoneme only has one allophone. (Under alternative 1, we would say that has no allophones.) Do all phonemes have allophones?

But when we look at sounds, we find that no sound really remains unchanged by the sounds around it.. For instance, /h/ tends to include the sound of the following vowel. In hot, hit, hat : Do all phonemes have allophones?