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  Allophone. Who is Allophone? What is Allophone? Where is Allophone? Definition of Allophone. Meaning of Allophone.
In phonetics, an allophone is one of several similar speech sounds belonging to a phoneme.
For example, p as in pin and p as in spin are allophones in the English language.
A phone is a sound that has a definite shape as a sound wave, and an allophone is a phone considered as a member of one phoneme.
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 Canadian English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Canadian English is the form of English used in Canada, spoken as a first language by more than 19 million people (as of 2003).
A plausible contemporary reference for formal Canadian spelling is the spelling used for Hansard transcripts of the Canadian Parliament.
However, only a certain usage of eh (detailed in the article) is peculiar to Canada, and it is more common in southern Ontario and the Maritimes than elsewhere in the country.
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 Quebec [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The major difference between a Canadian province and a Canadian territory is that a province is a creation of the Constitution Act, while a territory is created by federal law.
Admittance into  Confederation Canadian Confederation, or the Confederation of Canada, was the process that ultimately brought together a union among the provinces, colonies and territories of British North America to form the Dominion of Canada, a Dominion of the British Empire, which today is a federal nation state simply known as Canada....
Anglo-Quebecer Anglo-Quebecers are anglophone (English-speaking) residents of the Canadian province of Quebec.
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 Articles - Canadian English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Canadian Press (CP) style, which is used by most Canadian newspapers, agrees with some Commonwealth usage: for example, -our ( honour, colour, endeavour), -re ( centre, theatre) and cheque, grey, jewellery, pyjamas, storey and sulphur.
Often native French Canadian speakers will use the french transcription, so in Quebec it is relatively common of for both Anglophones and Francophones to "Close the light" or to "Open the light"; meaning to turn on or off the light in a room.
Canadian students add "grade" before their grade level, instead of after it as is the usual, but not sole, American practice.
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 Your Free Montreal Art History Online Reference and Guide
Montreal has a substantial anglophone minority and an increasing population of allophones (those whose first language is neither English nor French), including both ethnic communities with deep historical roots, and substantial numbers of recent immigrants of whom a substantial number are integrated into the French-speaking community.
Allophones and anglophones are most highly-represented on the Island of Montreal, where they make up 27.7% and 18.8% of total population, respectively.
According to The Canadian Style, the official style guide of the federal and provincial governments, the name of the city is to be written with an accent as Montréal in all printed materials in both English and French.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Montreal,_Canada   (4179 words)

  
 Canadian English - Art History Online Reference and Guide
Canadian English is the form of English used in Canada, spoken as a first or second language by over 25 million Canadians (as recorded in the 2001 census [1]).
Canadian English spelling is a mixture of U.S. and British, but Canadian speech is much closer to U.S. English, with some French influence.
Canadian students add "grade" before their grade level, instead of after it as is the more usual—but not the sole—American practice.
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 Canadian English - Iridis Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Another quirk is that Canadian students add "grade" before their grade level, instead of after it as is the more usual -- but not the sole -- American practice.
The term "college" in Canada is used to refer to a community college or educational institute, while "university" is preferred to describe a university.
"Gino" is the Canadian equivalent of the American term "Guido," referring to young, often aggressive, urban North American males of Italian origin with a penchant for car-repair and body-building.
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 Wikinfo | Canadian English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Canadian English is the form of English used in Canada.
Canadian raising preserves the voicelessness of /t/ and the voicedness of /d/ where it is etymologically appropriate, even where the contrast is lost in the consonant itself.
Also, when pronouncing letters of the alphabet, Canadians will often use the Anglo-European "zed" rather than the American "zee" for the letter Z. The island of Newfoundland has its own dialect distinct from Canadian English.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Canadian_English   (954 words)

  
 Canadian English
Canadian spelling is with a C, although this is fading with time.
Chesterfield vs. couch: Canadians may sit on either, depending on where you are in the country and how old you are.
Canadians also tend to pronounce cot the same as caught and collar the same as caller.
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 Montreal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Montreal is situated in the southwest of Quebec, approximately 200 kilometres (122 miles) southwest of Quebec City, the provincial capital, and 150 kilometres (93 miles) east of Ottawa, the federal capital.
About 18.4% of the population of the Greater Montreal Area are allophone (they have neither French nor English as their mother tongue) and 13.8% are native anglophone.
Montreal boasts having one of the largest Gay and Lesbian populations per capita in the world, nearly 15% of the population, and as a result it is home to a large gay village located downtown and known in French as le Village gai.
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 uni.ca - Wilson Commission - Appendices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Canadian aboriginals are largely as peaceable as the rest of us, Oka notwithstanding, but absent a deal with the Quebec government there would be a major potential for trouble here.
The Canadian version of parliamentary democracy at both the federal and provincial levels is one of the most partisan and rigidly controlled of any in the western world.
A key question of Canadian federalism is whether Ottawa will seek to use improved financial circumstances to cede expenditure flexibility to the provinces and individuals via lower taxes, or whether it will return to its old ways, maintain high taxes and high spending, and thereby attempt to recover its accustomed hegemony via the "golden rule".
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 Phonics and other key terms defined
When allophones occur in different environments, only one ever occurring in one environment, they are said to be in complementary distribution.
In actual speech the number of allophones may be wider and include a [mute] as in "You take it for grannid" and a [d] as in "bread and budder." The unvoiced [t] sometimes substitutes for the voiced [d] as in "lookt" which is probably the most common pronunciation of [looked].
When linguists are developing a phonemic description of a language or dialect they most often select the most common or widely distributed allophone of each phoneme as the typical allophone of that phoneme and use its phonetic symbol to represent the phoneme as a whole.
www.foolswisdom.com /~sbett/phonics.html   (5568 words)

  
 Ukrainian Canadians in the 2001 Census: an overview (03/30/03)
In proportional terms, this means that the percentage of Ukrainians in the Canadian population overall fell from 3.91 in 1991 to 3.61 in 2001.
The proportion of the Ukrainian Canadian population found in specific provinces or regions remained much the same as it was in 1991.
A much greater proportion of Canada's allophone population (i.e., those with a mother tongue other than one of Canada's official languages) now consists of recent immigrants from non-traditional source regions (e.g., east and southeast Asia, the sub-continent, and so forth).
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2003/130319.shtml   (1489 words)

  
 Reading Multiculturalism in the United States and Canada: The Anthological vs the Cognitive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Once again, Canadian and American ideas of multiculturalism are not the same, and the American idea comprises a recapitulation and perfection of a pluralism that is foundational to American mythology and allows individuals far more latitude in the choices they make about their place in society.
The contrast of Canadian cognitive multiculturalism and American anthological multiculturalism is apparent in readings of other important novels, including Thomas King's Medicine River (1990), which is a favourite of Canadian critics discussing contemporary issues of ethnicity, and Ellison's Invisible Man (1952), which had a particular impact on the reading practices of Fishkin.
Thus, in the mind of one Canadian thinker, it is not the case that multiculturalism is a goal of a liberal society that is opposed to the conservatism of a monocultural or Eurocentric model.
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 Talk:Charter of the French Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Your assertion that the OLF decries the usage of languages other than French inside households is mistaken.
The only thing that was ever neurotic and fixated was the obsession of the English Canadian corporate media against Bill 101, and the PQ from day 1 up until now.
If I were a Canadian patriot, I would hate it even more knowing that it is evil separatists from the evil social-democrat PQ who gave it that mission.
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 [conlang] Digest Number 3950
So while the Romanian usage probably accounts for the pronunciation of Turkish s-cedilla, it seems to me unlikely to be the immediate source of its form.
So while the Romanian usage > probably accounts for the pronunciation of Turkish s-cedilla, it seems > to me unlikely to be the immediate source of its form.
Depending on the stress of the word and personal whim, [and] before [N] and [r\] seems to be, allophonically, either [E] or [and].
www.mail-archive.com /conlang@yahoogroups.com/msg00005.html   (4757 words)

  
 Multiculturalism and the political organization of HCSO
In fact, Canadian society is characterized by a clear ethnically (and gender)-based class hierarchy and struggle, which of course is not addressed by multiculturalism, because such struggle is challenging, if not threatening, the existing social order.
Instead of portraying Canadian society as divided among antagonistic class and gender lines, it paints a picture of society as a "community of communities" in which the most important, or the only, cleavages are cultural and/or linguistic.
Canadian culture has indeed changed over the years, but the biggest reason for these changes is not so much the arrival of new immigrants and the existence of the policy of multiculturalism, but rather because of the economic and cultural pull of our neighbour to the south.
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 Slashdot | Yahoo! Threatens French-Language Site Over Parody
Canadians use a labialised vowel in all three words (their lips are pursed.) Most Americans only use a labial for 'boat'.
Most Canadians only hear it when speaking to people from the Maritimes because their accent is pronounced in other ways as well.
Most Canadians do have a perceptibily different accent, but are much easier for most Americans to understand than people from other regions of their own country.
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 Québécois - Surch
Statements by Parti Québécois leaders, especially Jacques Parizeau and Lucien Bouchard, have been widely interpreted as assuming that Québécois are francophone, although these inferences are questionable.
Nevertheless, for an anglophone to describe himself or herself in French as Québécois would be unexceptionable; in Canadian English it would be contrary to general usage.
Today Quebec is home to a multi-ethnic society with a francophone majority and large anglophone and allophone minorities.
www.surch.co.uk /-/Quebecois.html   (799 words)

  
 SBF Glossary: AK to Alverno
This particular usage seems to be common in the soil and water-treatment fields.
The strictest usage, and not an uncommon one, applies the term only to the hydroxides of alkali metals.
In current usage, the alkaline earths are the metals in group IIA of the periodic table ( Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ra).
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 Allophone (Canadian usage) - Wikipedia
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 Cartrackers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Canadians like hyphens after co. Co-ordinate how you co-operate.
Never Again, using your own logic, one might think that 97minitaco, tboner, mandrake, and you are one in the same based on similar spelling and writing styles.
Vandoo has been critical of the styles used by many, but in fact, his style is to not skip spaces between paragraphs.
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 Talk:Francophone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although some people still use it to try to call up old Spanish dictators...
The new link to Allophone (Canadian usage) can be removed without consulting the linker by anyone who prefers the original link.
Hence many people would only consider France as the only truly francophone country as other contries have French spoken by a minority of the population.
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 Anglophone - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
As an adjective, it means English-speaking, whether referring to individuals, groups or places.
In Quebec and Canada, this term is widely used to designate someone whose everyday language is English, contrasted to francophone ( someone whose everyday language is French) and allophones (those who use any other language).
The term can refer to major English speaking nations such as: The United Kingdom, The Republic of Ireland, The United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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 Quebecois   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Statements by parti Québécois leaders, especially Jacques Parizeau and Lucien Bouchard, have been widely interpreted as assuming that Québécois are francophone.
Nevertheless, for an anglophone to descrbe himself or herself in Canadian French as a Québécois would be unexceptionable; in Canadian English it would be contrary to general usage.
Other noted Québécois singers include Georges Dor, composer of "La Complainte de La Manic", Gilles Vigneault composer of "Mon Pays" (the tune was also used for the American song "From New York to L. A."), and Félix Leclerc.
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 Allophone (Canadian usage) - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Allophone (Canadian usage) - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal
In Canada, and especially in Quebec, an allophone is someone whose first language is neither English nor French.
The terms anglophone and francophone are used in Canada to designate people whose first languages are English and French, respectively.
www.artpolitic.org /infopedia/al/Allophone_(Canadian_usage).html   (125 words)

  
 Montreal Gazette - Art History Online Reference and Guide
However, the Montreal Star was shut down by a long strike action and ceased publication forever in 1979, less than a year after the strike was settled.
Today, the Gazette 's audience is primarily the anglophone and allophone communities which account for about half of the population of the Island of Montreal.
Numerous francophones also read English; more than half of the population of Montreal is bilingual.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Montreal_Gazette   (170 words)

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