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ALLOPHONE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("allophone" is a kind of...):
phoneme ((linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language)
Domain category:
linguistics (the scientific study of language)
Derivation:
allophonic (pertaining to allophones)
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