| 释义 |
▪ I. allograph1|ˈæləgrɑːf, -æ-|
[mod. f. Gr. ἄλλος other + γραϕή writing. Cf. autograph.]
A writing or signature made by one person on behalf of another.
▪ II. allograph2 Philol.|ˈæləʊgrɑːf, -æ-|
[f. allo- 3 + grapheme.]
a. A particular form of a letter of an alphabet.
b. One of a number of letters or letter-combinations representing a phoneme; thus f (in friend) and gh (in cough) are two of the allographs representing the phoneme /f/. Hence alloˈgraphic a.
1951R. A. Hall Jun. in Archivum Linguisticum III. 117 We now have allomorph and morpheme, alloseme and sememe, allograph and grapheme. 1956A. McIntosh in Trans. Philol. Soc. 43 At other times it [sc. the word ‘letter’] is used of the particular allographic form a grapheme may have in a given context, e.g. when we speak of ‘the s used in final position in Greek’; again it may be used of a single instance of an allograph, as when we say ‘that's a badly formed letter’. 1962Amer. Speech XXXVII. 229 A proposal to describe graphemes in terms of phonemic model, i.e., grapheme: phoneme::graph: phone::allograph: allophone. 1963Language XXXIX. 234 We might imagine that an Arcadian, struck by the fact that the Laconians sometimes spelled with 〈wo〉 what was to him simply /o:/, introduced 〈wo〉 here, considering it merely an initial allograph of 〈o〉. |