Distribution of Sounds: Free Variation

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[@AzeLinguistics]

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just a suggestion, maybe you can louder your voice when you are speaking, or you can also edit your voice volume (while edit the video). Because your voice is not clear enough sir. Anw thank you for the very useful knowledge & helping me understanding my phonology course in college ❤️

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[@elesien2085]

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[@ngocanhinh1637]

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[@bot6365]

thanks for the video. Now I understand more about Free Variation

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[@AzeLinguistics]

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[@gizemkoldemir9914]

Hi
I really like your channel, it is so beneficial. As a Turk, I'm happy to see examples from Turkish but I need to say that pronunciation was not exactly correct. We don't pronunce it with [x] in ''haber'' but Arabians do.Also, ''Haber'' is originally an Arabic word.

[@AzeLinguistics]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@valedaclarabelle6828]

Hello, what is the difference between free distribution at the word level and the phoneme level? What makes the 'either' example word level and the 'little' example phoneme level? Thank you so much for making these videos!

[@aylin3819]

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[@AzeLinguistics]

De rien :)

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[@Anna-uo1yi]

in the word pasta, "a" could be pronounced as [a:] or [æ], in this case, these two phones are not in complementary distribution, could we say that they are still allophones of the same phoneme?

[@AzeLinguistics]

They're free variants (free variation).

[@na_kungchang]

great work!

[@verushckacizzelle7403]

Perfect

[@realfeel1070]

Please make a video on distinctive features,
If you have already made then please help me to find

[@ummunurkeklik8264]

I wonder if free variation is the same of language variation(accent and dialect)?

[@AzeLinguistics]

Make sure you watch similar videos in the playlist.

[@ngocanhinh1637]

A Gorgeous lesson

[@kookiessugatae8934]

Hey can someone guide me if phonetic similarity and free variation same?

[@atrachabdel2867]

Lets consider ensif and ensiv words from a hypothetical language that means both "some" the question here is if /f/ and /v/ are phonemes or allophones?

[@AzeLinguistics]

[f] and [v] will be allophones of the phoneme X, X being the majority case (the elsewhere case). It will probably be either /f/ or /v/.

[@atrachabdel2867]

Thanks a lot

[@probablysleeping7597]

do you have a video about the natural class?

[@AzeLinguistics]

Would you elaborate a bit? 🤔

[@Q0718-c2x]

free variation is also allophone?

[@Q0718-c2x]

wait this is not true. Allophone has to be in complementary distribution. But free variation must not!

[@Q0718-c2x]

well. The wikipedia says allophone can be free varaiation. So I guess unless that other than free variation sounds way too distinct to be same phoneme(in some case), it can be an allophone.

[@sixtasocorrorivasgutierrez248]

Hi

[@AzeLinguistics]

Hi, Sixta!
Nice to have you here!
See you every Wednesday :)

[@KhadijaElkouri-pf9xt]

Perfect ✅

[@Justpixy2002]

Amazing job thanks!

[@sirphillip5837]

Well understandable,thank you

[@asmaboutoubat7226]

Hey
I really enjoyed this video nd I understand now well this lesson even so im so interested in turkish and Eng
Thanks ♡

[@AzeLinguistics]

'Free variation' can be found in any language, including Turkish, which, unfortunately, I don't know enough of.

[@AzeLinguistics]

Be sure to check my other two videos on 'Distribution of Sounds' (focused on 'contrastive' and then 'complementary' distribution.