Diaphonic variation

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 733.

Diaphonic variation affects the quality and quantity of particular phonemes. E.g. the diaphonic variation of /æ / involves significant changes in length, because in some dialects /æ / is much longer than the standard sound. Its quality ranges from a front open / æ / in the southern part of England to /a/ in Northern England.

Diaphonic variants do not affect intelligibility of speech, yet they inform the listener about the speaker's origin (i.e. the region he comes from) and his social standing. The listener easily notices both idiolectal and diaphonic variants, but it does not take him much time to “tune in” to the speakers manner of speech and understand him.

15. Allophonic variationIn phonology, an allophone (/ˈæləfoʊn/; from the Greek: ἄλλος, állos, "other" and φωνή, phōnē, "voice, sound") is one of a set of multiple possible spoken sounds (or phones) used to pronounce a single phoneme.^[1] For example, [pʰ] (as in pin) and [p] (as in spin) are allophones for the phoneme /p/ in the English language. Although a phoneme's allophones are all alternative pronunciations for a phoneme, the specific allophone selected in a given situation is often predictable. Changing the allophone used by native speakers for a given phoneme in a specific context usually will not change the meaning of a word but the result may sound non-native or unintelligible. Native speakers of a given language usually perceive one phoneme in their language as a single distinctive sound in that language and are "both unaware of and even shocked by" the allophone variations used to pronounce single phonemes

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