How does the study of signed languages relate to the concept of allophones in spoken languages (e.g., allochires)?

We conclude that phonological and phonetic relations between the learners' L1 and L2 are important in identifying allophones of the same L2 category. allophone used by LP, even before the tense high-front vowel /i/, is frequently intrepeted as /w/ by the listeners at Southern Bell, al- though no lip ... Jan 8, 2021 ... In most contexts, [i] and [ɪ] are not allophones: there are many contrasting pairs such as beet and bit or seen and sin. 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 ... Apr 23, 2025 ... In English the t sounds in the words “hit,” “tip,” and “little” are allophones; phonemically they are considered to be the same sound although ... 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 ... Highlights. •. Pre-lexical representations in speech perception were probed with selective adaptation. •. Allophonic and phoneme overlap between adaptors and ... May 3, 2010 ... An allophone is someone who's native language is not the same as the one of the dominant linguistic community in which he lives. We introduce a new resource, AlloVera, which provides mappings from 218 allophones to phonemes for 14 languages. Phonemes are contrastive phonological units, ... A flap can occur as an allophone of other phonemes. For example, it occurs in Spanish when speaking the /r/ in pero. Cueing Allophones. Hearing cuers often ...