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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024al•lo•phone (al′ə fōn′),USA pronunciation n. [Phonet.]- Phoneticsany of the members of a class of speech sounds that, taken together, are commonly felt to be a phoneme, as the t- sounds of toe, stow, tree, hatpin, catcall, cats, catnip, button, metal, city; a speech sound constituting one of the phonetic manifestations or variants of a particular phoneme.
al•lo•phon•ic (al′ə fon′ik),USA pronunciation adj. al′lo•phon′i•cal•ly, adv. |