what are the difficult for learning English about allophones? I don't understand your question, but one thing about allophones is that you don't need to learn them in order to be understood: you'll be understood anyway.

What do you mean? There are allophones of /t/, yes... At the end of a word (if nothing follows), /t/ can be pronounced in three different ways, as far as I know: 1) Released: you can hear the /t/, which is sometimes aspirated to some extent 2)

Hi I would like to know if there are any differences between the allophones of British (RP) /t/ and American (GA) /t/ specifically at the end of words such as 'ba t ', 'ca t ' , or 'hesitan t ' and 'restauran t '.

Liquids do have allophones: one of the liquid /r/ allophone is retroflex. Many times, learners just focus on some abstract sound without looking at the environment. For instance, AmE /t/ has 8 allophones. Even if a foregin language has the AmE

what are the examples of phonemes transcribe to allophones?

1. their /v/ is weak, since they have it as an approximant, which is weaker than a fricative. In Eng, it is a fricative. Even in english, /v/ can have its approximant as an allophone: this occurs probably in phrases like "five sixty",

I am writing an essay on complimentary distribution and free variation of allophones. I have come across several processes that occur in speech and I am not sure if they are relevant to my essay or not. The processes are coarticulation,

Linguistics. A predictable phonetic variant of a phoneme. For example, the aspirated t of top, the unaspirated t of stop, and the tt (pronounced as a flap) of batter are allophones of the English phoneme /t/. The English language words have many

Sometimes the same phonetic symbol is used when a slightly different sound is created (allophones). This depends on the other sounds surrounding it. BlaCK kitten blaCK egg the /k/ sound in black differs depending on the following word –

Thanks Kooyeen for sharing your frustration you have gone through. Basically, I understand the limitation of "broad transcription", i.e. a set of simplified symbols instead of the complete set of IPA. They are easier to read and