allotonen.
/ˈalətəʊn/, U.S. /ˈæləˌtoʊn/ Linguistics.
In a tone language: any of the variants making up a single toneme.
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1948 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 68 191/1 The historical prototype for all four systems appears to have been a three-tone system..with high allotones after surd initial and low allotones after sonant initial.
1968 Language 44 79 The allotones of the high and of the glide tonemes are conditioned by their occurrence in ballistic or controlled syllables.
1972 Computers & Humanities 6 262 Each of these may have had two allotones, or predictable variations, conditioned by the voicing of the syllable initial.
2004 M. Yip in J. J. McCarthy Optimality Theory in Phonol. xii. 236 In Taiwanese tones have two allotones, one in final position, one in non-final position.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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