Allophone

Japanese: allophone
Allophone

…These three sounds [ɸ][ç][h] all share the property of voiceless fricatives, and are also distributed in a complementary way with the five vowels [a,i,ɯ,e,o]. When several similar sounds do not exist in the same phonetic environment, they are considered allophones of the same phoneme. In other words, [ɸ][ç][h] are positional allophones of the phoneme /h/. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "allophone" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…これら三つの音[ɸ][ç][h]はいずれも無声摩擦という性質を共有し,しかも5母音[a,i,ɯ,e,o]との結びつきが相補う分布をなしている。このように類似したいくつかの音が同じ音声環境に立たないとき,これらの音声は同一音素の異音allophoneと見なされる。すなわち[ɸ][ç][h]は音素/h/の位置異音である。…

※「allophone」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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