From there it ain't far to a bilateral stop as a second allophone.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: NABOB/NAWAB.] Reference

I'm not adding extra phonemes or phonation types at all, only allophone variants.    From Wordnik.com.  [A few more words on my new Gemination rule for Pre-IE] Reference

But it's an allophone, so maybe that's where the confusion comes from -- defective mastery of pinyin.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: BEIZHING.] Reference

Nowadays, the neighbourhoods along The Main are allophone, you'll hear everything from Albanian to Yue there.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: ANOTHER HIATUS.] Reference

It's easier to explain a phonetic feature becoming phonemic if it already exists, either as a conditioned or as a freely variant allophone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2] Reference

I mention this because, as I said, there's nothing barring the possibility that "V" was used at least in some cases to write an allophone o.    From Wordnik.com.  [The net doesn't have to be an intellectual wasteland for Etruscan studies] Reference

Furthermore, the Anglophone and francophone populations on the island of Montreal itself are nearly equal, with a very large allophone minority.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: MONTREAL 2.] Reference

B and V are always interchangeable – they both represent a voiced bilabial plosive or its more frequent allophone a voiced bilabial fricative β.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spanish spelling | Linguism] Reference

G is either a voiced velar plosive or more often its voiced fricative allophone, before consonants or a, o, u; or a voiceless velar fricative /x/ before e or i.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spanish spelling | Linguism] Reference

In contrast, a root that shows a devoiced stop but which confuses the allophone with the homophonous phoneme should instead properly pair with another unvoiced stop.    From Wordnik.com.  [PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring?] Reference

I know some Indo-Europeanists support long e to be a allophone of e I'm one of them but I never got a very clear explanation in what environment the long vowels show up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The headache of the Indo-European subjunctive] Reference

It seems to me that, for a given language, any phonetic feature which is neither a phoneme nor a conditioned allophone can be in free variation with any other such feature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2] Reference

Rob: "It seems to me that, for a given language, any phonetic feature which is neither a phoneme nor a conditioned allophone can be in free variation with any other such feature.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2] Reference

As əʊ is an allophone of /oʊ/ (as in “road”) in many other dialects, the (mainly Eastern) Canadian pronunciation of “about the house” may sound like “a boat the hoas” to non-Canadians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Leah Thinks She Doesn’t Say ‘Aboot’ « Gerry Canavan] Reference

As a mechanism it isn't without problems, I admit: typically (in the examples I've seen, anyway) dissimilation leads to the substitution of another phoneme, not to the insertion of one (or the introduction of a new allophone).    From Wordnik.com.  [Japanese dialect mirrors suspected PIE development of sibilantization between two dental stops] Reference

Midway through her narrative, centred mainly on a mother and son caught up in the crisis, Wong shifted to a personal reflection on the impact of the "decades-long linguistic struggle" in Quebec on allophone immigrants, and their consequent alienation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace, order and good government, eh?: September 2006 Archives] Reference

· Support for the Currah Speech allophone speech synthesizer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference

Bridging schools were used by wealthy francophone and allophone parents to circumvent Bill 101.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

The government argued strict conditions will have to be met before allowing a francophone or allophone student to enter the English public school system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

A Muslim allophone socialist student's multilingual blog concerning international, Québécois and Canadian news and current avents, with an interest in democracy, human rights, development, and poverty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive Bloggers] Reference

"They have just opened a hole in the protection of the French language because it will allow any francophone or allophone to get around Bill 101 for a few thousand dollars," said PQ Leader Pauline Marois.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winnipeg Sun] Reference

There are no statistics available on how many children and teens take on this role, but one in five people in Canada is an allophone - someone whose first language is neither French nor English - and their ranks are growing.    From Wordnik.com.  [canada.com Top Stories] Reference

A Muslim allophone socialist student's multilingual blog concerning international, Québécois and Canadian news and current avents, with an interest in democracy, human rights, development, and poverty, especially when concerning G. B, Northern Ireland, Palestine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogging Change] Reference

The voiced counterpart to /θ/ is not listed as a phoneme in its own right, but occurs as the most frequent allophone of /d/: d appears in word initial position following a rhythmical pause, and following /n/ or /l/.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anglicizing Spanish (2) | Linguism] Reference