Types of Allophones

Anticipatory assimilation to an adjacent segment Anticipatory assimilation to an adjacent segment is the most common type of assimilation by far, and typically has the character of a conditioned sound change, i.e., it applies to the whole lexicon or part of it.

allophone, In phonology, an allophone (; from the , állos, "other" and φωνή, phōnē, "voice, sound") is one of a set of multiple possible

Final-obstruent devoicing or terminal devoicing is a systematic phonological process occurring in languages such as Catalan, German, Dutch, Breton, Russian, Turkish, and Wolof. In such languages, voiced obstruents become voiceless before voiceless consonants and in pausa Dutch and Afrikaans. In ...

allophone, In phonology, an allophone (; from the , állos, "other" and φωνή, phōnē, "voice, sound") is one of a set of multiple possible

For complementary allophones, each allophone is used in a specific phonetic context and may be involved in a phonological process. In other cases, the speaker can freely select from free variant allophones on personal habit or preference.

allophonic, In phonology, ... are allophones for the phoneme in the English language. ... Dahalo ** Lenition: Manx ** Voicing of clicks: ...

The specific allophone selected in a given situation is often predictable from the phonetic context, with such allophones being called positional variants, but some allophones occur in free variation. Replacing a sound by another allophone of the same phoneme usually does not change the meaning of a word, but the result may sound non-native or even unintelligible.