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allophone
CIDE DICTIONARY
allophone, n.
any one of two or more speech sounds that considered variants of the same phoneme. For example, the p sounds of pin and spin are allophones of p ; and the t sounds of toe stop and catnip are allophones of t . [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
allophone, n. Linguistics any of the variant sounds forming a single phoneme.
Derivative
allophonic adj.
Etymology
ALLO- + PHONEME
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