Are these variations considered allophonic in English

Dec 21, 2006 ... Senior Member ... I don't think there is any antonym for allophone. An allophone is a sound that belongs the set of phones that are the ... Sep 4, 2012 ... An allophone is one of several similar phones that belong to the same phoneme. A phone is a sound that has a definite shape as a sound wave. Some allophones appear in free variation, which means that it's pretty much random which variant appears in any environment. But most allophones are entirely ... In this unit the discussion relates to minimal pairs and allophones. A phoneme is the smallest/indivisible and contrastive or significant unit of the sound of a ... The voiced dental fricative [ð], an allophone of /θ/, is similar in its articulation to the dental approximant [ð̞], which is an allophone of /d/. The main ... ... allophone that is not yet merged with /æg/. If. /eɪg/ had always been a ... allophone for all speakers. Instead, it appears that this may be a case of ... May 23, 2023 ... An allophonic variation is a pronunciation variant of a particular phoneme. Phonemes represent categories of very similarly-pronounced sounds. Phonemes are the smallest unit of spoken language that contribute to sense-making for a given word and/or in a given language. An allophone is a variation of a phoneme that occurs in specific contexts but does not change the meaning of a word. Allophones are different ways a single ... Sep 29, 2012 ... What I really wanted to talk about was whether or not [w] was a phoneme in Classical Latin, or if it was just an allophone of [u].