Can training in auditory discrimination improve a learner's ability to perceive subtle allophonic differences?

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 ... We introduce a new resource, AlloVera, which provides mappings from 218 allophones to phonemes for 14 languages. Phonemes are contrastive phonological units, ... Nov 9, 2010 ... Allophones are phonetic variations - different pronunciations - of the same phoneme. Using a different allophone does not change meaning. Allophone. Definition: An allophone is a phonetic variant of a phoneme in a particular language. ... This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version ... What is Allophone. Chapter 3. Handbook of Research on Medical Interpreting. Canadian term for a person who does not speak either English (anglophone) of French ... Jul 8, 2019 ... The second term is allophone. It comes from the Greek words for “other” and “sound,” and refers to the specific ways of pronouncing a phoneme. Oct 21, 2019 ... For example, the English /t/ phoneme is pronounced differently in different environments: as an unaspirated [t] in stop [stαp], as an aspirated ... 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]. Oct 22, 2024 ... Although the tap exists as an allophone of t and d in English, students of Spanish must learn to process it as a phoneme rather than an ... Phonemes are the smallest unit of spoken language that contribute to sense-making for a given word and/or in a given language.