It is quite difficult to recognize allophones for a layman as they all may sound the same apparently. Let us look at it by a simple example. The consonant “t” may have more than one variation in its speech sound when pronounced in different words. Similarly, the letter “r” also has many variants of speech sound associated with it.

One example from the dialect would be long and s... Allophones are literally ‘other sounds’ and are variants of a phoneme used in a given context. English dialects have a lot of examples, mine is from the Pacific Southwest and I speak it with a Santa Barbara Channel region accent.

Examples of allophones. Another example of a phoneme is /p/ as in the word “spin” or as in the word “pin;” the allophone in pin is aspirated (causing it to sound almost like a “phi”), whereas the allophone in “spin” is not, and sounds like “pih.”.

02/02/2022 · Allophone Example. Common Misrepresentations: Explanation: stop: Sounds different than [tʰ]. However, students cannot find another cue that will represent this version of /t/ and therefore cue it correctly as handshape 5. When /t/ occurs between /s/ and a vowel, the aspiration is lost.