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1 In French, the words /bo/ for beau (“handsome”) and /bo˜/ for bon (“good”) seem to have different vowels. Are these two vowels allophones or phonemes in French?
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1 In French, the words /bo/ for beau (“handsome”) and /bo˜/ for bon (“good”) seem

to have different vowels. Are these two vowels allophones or phonemes in French?

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These vowels are phonemes because the difference in their pronunciation, /o/ versus /õ/, is the basis of a difference in meaning for the two words.

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