Phone, phoneme and allophone

1. PHONE, PHONEME
AND ALLOPHONE
IBRAHIM MUNEER

2. PHON & EME
Shape Meaningful
PHONEME consist of tow parts first part is PHON
& eme. PHON ( means the shape of a sound ), when we
add eme to PHON it becomes PHONEME.
Phone & Phoneme

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Phoneme: is the smallest unit of a language which makes difference in
meaning.
Phoneme is a set of allophone.
An essential property of a phoneme is that it functions contrastively.
A phoneme is a distinct speech sounds in a language. A
Phoneme is a sound if we change it in a word the meaning also will change.
E.g.
CAT / k /
SAT / s /

4. Transcription Phoneme
Initially phoneme
breeze / freeze
/briːz/ - /friːz/ /b/ and /f/ are phonemes
Middle phoneme
bell / bill
/bel/ - /bɪl/ /e/ and /ɪ/ /are phonemes
End phoneme
had / hat
/hæd/ - /hæt/ /d/ and /t/ /are phonemes

5. ALLOPHONE
What is allophone?
One of tow or more variants of the same phoneme in a language. It does not
change meaning .
 Pen Pʰ ( strong puff)
 Spin P ( weak puff )
 Stop P ( no puff )
P
Pʰ ( strong puff)P ( weak puff )P ( no puff )

6. PHONEME AND ALLOPHONE
• Phones
sounds of language
• Phonemes
significant sound differences
• Allophones
non-significant sound differences
Phone, Phoneme and Allophone

7. Phoneme
Allophone

8. Phoneme
Allophone
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