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allophone
al·lo·phone A0215400 (ăl′ə-fōn′)n.1. Linguistics A predictable phonetic variant of a phoneme. For example, the aspirated t of top, the unaspirated t of stop, and the tt (pronounced as a flap) of batter are allophones of the English phoneme /t/.2. or Allophone Canadian A person whose native language is other than French or English.
[allo- + phone(me).]
al′lo·phon′ic (-fŏn′ĭk) adj.al′lo·phon′i·cal·ly adv.allophone (ˈæləˌfəʊn) n1. (Phonetics & Phonology) any of several speech sounds that are regarded as contextual or environmental variants of the same phoneme. In English the aspirated initial (p) in pot and the unaspirated (p) in spot are allophones of the phoneme /p/2. Canadian a Canadian whose native language is neither French nor English allophonic adjal•lo•phone (ˈæl əˌfoʊn)
n. 1. a speech sound constituting one of the phonetic manifestations or variants of a phoneme, depending on its environment, as any of the t-sounds of top, stop, tree, cat, button, metal, or city. 2. Canadian. a person whose native language is neither English nor French. [1930–35] al`lo•phon′ic (-ˈfɒn ɪk) adj. al`lo•phon′i•cal•ly, adv. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | allophone - (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phonemelinguistics - the scientific study of languagephoneme - (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language |
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Related to allophone: complementary distributionWords related to allophonenoun (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phonemeRelated Words |