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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024di•a•phone (dī′ə fōn′),USA pronunciation n. - a foghorn producing a low-pitched, penetrating signal of two tones.
- Linguistics, Phonetics[Phonet.]
- a phoneme in one dialect corresponding to a similar but phonetically different phoneme in a related dialect.
- a group of sounds comprising all the phonetically different dialectal variants of a given phoneme in a language:The broada and flat a of "half '' are members of a single diaphone.
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