Variation Allophones [OFFICIAL]

These variations occur primarily because our speech adapts to the sounds around it to make pronunciation more efficient. There are two main ways these variants are distributed:

In linguistics, refers to the different ways a single phoneme can be pronounced without changing the meaning of a word. While we think of a phoneme as a single "sound," it is actually a mental category that contains several physical realizations called allophones . Why Allophonic Variation Happens Variation Allophones