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noun - (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
A predictable phonetic variant of a phoneme.
ALLOPHONE - In phonology, an allophone (; from the Greek , állos, "other" and , phn, "voice, sound") is one of a set of multiple possible spoken sounds, or phon...
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| (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme |
| one of the ways in which a particular phoneme ( speech sound) can be pronounced |
| 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. |
| Canadian A person whose native language is other than French or English. |
| Any of the various phonetic realizations of a phoneme in a language, which do not contribute to distinctions of meaning. For example, in English an aspirated p (as in pin) and unaspirated p (as in spin) are allophones of p, whereas in ancient Greek the distinction was phonemic. |
| (especially in Quebec) an immigrant whose first language is neither French nor English. |
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In phonology, an allophone (; from the Greek , állos, "other" and , phn, "voice, sound") is one of a set of multiple possible spoken sounds, or phones, or signs used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language. For example, [t] (as in Tom [tm]) and [] (as in Letter []) are allophones for the phoneme /t/ in English, while these two are considered to be different phonemes in Spanish. On the other hand [d] (as in dolor [dolor]) and [ð] (as in nada [naða]) are allophones for the phoneme /d/ in Spanish, while these two are considered to be different phonemes in English. * The specific allophone selected in a given situation is often predictable from the phonetic context, with such allophones being called positional variants, but some allophones occur in free variation. Replacing a sound by another allophone of the same phoneme usually does not change the meaning of a word, but the result may sound non-native or even unintelligible. * Native speakers of a given language perceive one p |