| In Japanese and some dialects of Chinese, the sounds f and h are allophones. |
| Now that the Canadian and Quebec governments are trying to pick immigrants who already speak French or English, it will make it harder for allophones to do well here. |
| Speakers of a language often have difficulty in hearing the phonetic differences between allophones of the same phoneme, because these differences do not serve to distinguish one word from another. |
| In Quebec itself, the francization of allophones is too sparse to make up for the deficit incurred by inadequate francophone fertility. |
| The allophones of a phoneme, then, are its contextually determined variants and they are in complementary distribution. |
| Occasionally it is convenient to use a transcription in which some of the allophones are represented by specific symbols, or some of the phonemes are designated by the symbols for a more restricted set of categories. |
