0 one of the ways in which a particular phoneme (= speech sound) can be pronounced --
It is assumed that both voiced and voiceless allophones of /s/ were responsible.
One might wish to argue that, if various allophones are realizations of one phoneme, various 'allospells' are realizations of one 'spelleme'.
The first part of the chapter is devoted to the allophony of voiced oral stops, which have continuant allophones in many contexts.
This subtle relationship between allophones of adjacent phonemes suggests that the drive for contrast maintenance occurs at a less abstract level than the phoneme.
This was done by reducing acceptable allophones to their standard phonemic form.
There is an important empirical consequence of the foot-based analysis of stop allophones which cannot be derived in syllable-based theories, even with ambisyllabicity.
The morphology of these words does not affect the choice of allophone.
But we can still say that the allophone choice and the vowel and syllable duration indicate headship in general.
