The aspects of the phoneme.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 472.

The relationship between the Phoneme and its allophones.

When a person wishes to pronounce a phoneme in in isolation he or she usually utters the so-called principal allophone. Besides the principal allophone which preserves the typical articulatory features of phonemes they are subdivided into combinatory and positional.

COMBINATORY – allophones are those which due to the influence of high boarding sounds are the products of assimilation, adaptation and accommodation.

POSITIONAL – allophones are those which are used in definite positions traditionally according to the orthotic norms of the language.

All phonemic variants differ from each other in the same aspect but at the same time they share certain common properties which is Phonetics are called distinctive features.

Phoneme is – material, real, objective.

The materiality of the phoneme is be formed by its real existence in language. The phoneme is a concrete speech sound that has it acoustic and articulatory properties. The objectivity of the phoneme consists of the fact that it exists irrespective of the will of the individual.

Phoneme is abstracted and generalized. The statement that a phoneme is both material and abstract affects what is known is Philosophy is dialectical contradiction. The relationship between the phoneme and its variants is a vivid instance of the many sided relation between what is abstract and general on the one hand and concrete and specific, on the other.