Re: THEORY: Allophones

FFlores wrote:

> Is there any natlang or conlang where an allophone
> of a certain phoneme is also an allophone (maybe the
> only one) of *another* phoneme? Do you think that's
> likely or probable?
I would say that it is likely... but it depends, I suppose, on what do
you call allophones.
In Hangkerimce there are many "allophones" in the sense that the
realizations of the same orthography will be the same, but I have not
clear if those different realizations are considered as realization of
the same sound by native speakers.

For example, K, whose nominal value is unsapirated /k/ are sometimes
realized, in soft positions, as /x/ which could be palatized before an
I, this is the same sound as C (nominal value /C/, voiceless palatal
fricative) after a syllabe final N (n=F3minal value /N/) when the N is in=

a strong (stressed) position.

About natlangs, I don't know if the swedes in this list would considered
that the short <e> is an allophone that is similar to the short <a"> or
if the short <e> is just a short <a">, where long <e> =3D /e:/, long <a">=

=3D /E/, short <e> =3D short <a"> =3D /E/, short <e> before <r> =3D short=
 <a">
before <r> =3D /&/.

>
>
> In this particular case, I have a daughter of Drasel=E9q,
> Curco, where /v/ has the allophones [v] and [w] (the
> latter when syllable-final), and there's also /w/ as
> a different phoneme.
>
> --Pablo Flores
>
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