brackets for phonetic detail, though conventions vary across authors and traditions.Some traditions also use other delimiters (for example, vertical bars) to distinguish different levels of abstraction in analysis.

Examples

Allophony

In many varieties of American English, the phoneme may be realized as an unreleased stop word-finally (wet ) but as an alveolar tap in contexts such as between vowels when the following syllable is unstressed (wetter ). Textbook analyses often

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