allophonic


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.
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Adj.1.allophonic - pertaining to allophones