| 释义 |
metaphone Phonetics.|ˈmɛtəfəʊn|
[f. meta- + phone n.1]
(See quots.)
1930H. E. Palmer Princ. Romanization ii. 52 Contrasted with monophones we have metaphones, which we may define as two or more phones which serve jointly as units of meaning within the limits of a given linguistic community. 1934Yuen-Ren Chao in M. Joos Readings in Linguistics (1958) 38/2 A dynamophone is a metaphone which contains two or more phones differing..in quality. 1966M. Pei Gloss. Ling. Terminol. 161 Metaphone, a free allophonic variant chosen in preference to another because regarded as more suitable to the type of speech used (tomahto, eyether, used in a given situation instead of the more customary pronunciations of tomato, either). 1972Hartmann & Stork Dict. Lang. & Ling. 140 Metaphone, a free variant of a phoneme, e.g. [-ai] or [i:] in neither. |