diphonemicadj.
/dʌɪfəʊˈniːmɪk/ Linguistics.
Applied to a sound that can be assigned to either of two phonemes.
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diaphonic1932
morphonemic1934
morphophonemic1934
subphonemic1935
microphonemic1936
monophonemic1936
allophonic1938
diaphonemic1939
monophonematic1940
diphonemic1950
idiophonemic1958
morphophonic1962
morphophonematic1964
hypophonemic1966
morphonic1966
1950 D. Jones Phoneme xx. 99 If a sound is assigned to two phonemes, it may be termed ‘di-phonemic’.
1950 D. Jones Phoneme xx. 100 The sound might be treated as di-phonemic, i.e. assigned to one phoneme in some words and the other phoneme in other words.
1957 Phonetica I. 103 The existence of di-phonemic /h/ + /j/.
Derivatives
diˈphoneme n. a sound of this kind.
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1953 W. J. Entwistle Aspects of Lang. iv. 114 There may be diphonemes, i.e. phonemes which belong to two different orders, but these are set at a convenient distance in Hindustani and Japanese.
1953 W. J. Entwistle Aspects of Lang. iv. 115 Perhaps it would be simplest not to admit the existence of diphonemes (i.e. of single phonemes which have two values simultaneously) until more evidence is available.
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