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单词 allolog
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allologn.

Brit. /ˈaləlɒɡ/, U.S. /ˈæləlˌɔɡ/, /ˈæləlˌɑɡ/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: allo- comb. form, Greek λόγος.
Etymology: < allo- comb. form + ancient Greek λόγος word (see Logos n.), after allomorph n.2, allophone n.1, etc.
Linguistics.
One of two or more pronunciations, viewed as alternants, which a word may take.
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1946 Language 22 5 When a person utters or hears a word, he is really uttering or hearing one of its allologs, so to speak.
1970 R. W. Wescott in Word 26 317 The precise point at which two allologs—that is, two variant forms of a single word—become two distinct words..is probably reached when the two allologs are spelled differently.
1974 Amer. Speech 1971 46 133 An example is the allolog tit /tit/ of the noun teat /tiyt/, where the former alternant is considered more ‘vulgar’ than the latter.
1998 R. W. Wescott in D. G. Lockwood et al. Functional Approaches to Lang., Culture, & Cognition xiii. 206 Certain words come to have both expanded and contracted allologs.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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