Definitions
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- adjective of or pertaining to an allophone.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to an
allophone .
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- adjective pertaining to allophones
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Examples
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"Aren't you precisely ascribing allophonic shwa devoicing as the cause of sibilant insertion?"
Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops 2009
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Aren't you precisely ascribing allophonic shwa devoicing as the cause of sibilant insertion?
Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops 2009
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These allophonic realisations varying by dialect would have resulted in the variety of realisations in daughter languages.
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009
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If *kap is actually reconstructible as *qap - you guys would know if this is the case - this might be a simple case of allophonic variation entering into the equation.
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009
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Granted, allophonic preaspiration is not quite normal either and were it phonemic, it would not be any less of an assumption than a phonemic *ts or *st would, I'm only bringing this possibility up to point that *ts and *st are not the only viable options here.
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So far, I'm thinking that gemination was merely an allophonic variation of non-geminated phonemes.
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Alternately, if your normal/supershort shwa distinction is not supposed to be allophonic, I'd also be very interested in seeing an example of a language distinguishing length only in reduced vowels.
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They were, as I stated before, initially produced by allophonic differences dependent on the neighbouring vowel.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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They were, as I stated before, initially produced by allophonic differences dependent on the neighbouring vowel.
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If I'm not mistaken, this initially allophonic labial colouring of *e by *h₃ had started before the dissolution of the PIE speech community.
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