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allophone

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˈaləˌfəʊn/Part of speech nounSorted aehllnoopStarts with AEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme

Word origin

From allo- (“different”) + -phone.

Used in a sentence

  • In some languages, [ʋ] is an allophone of /v/.
  • In the former the bilabial phone forms an allophone of the phoneme /v/ in word-final position after /a/ and an allophone of the phoneme /u/ when it is preceded by an obstruent and followed by /a/; […]

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