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When We Notice That an American English Speaker Puffs Air

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When we notice that an American English speaker puffs air when they say "pit", but not when they say "spit", and that this pattern holds true across a variety of utterances and for a variety of speakers, we can conclude that


A) [p] and [pʰ] are allophones of /p/.
B) /p/ and /pʰ/ are allophones of [p].
C) /p/ and /pʰ/ are phonemes in English.
D) the mechanics of producing a bilabial plosive at the beginning of a word require you to puff air, no matter what language you may be speaking.

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