The meaning of Allophone

noun

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 the phoneme /p/, whereas in ancient greek the distinction was phonemic.

noun

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 the phoneme /p/, whereas in ancient greek the distinction was phonemic.

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A phone is a realization in sound of a phoneme, and an allophone is one such realization among othe…

noun

(especially in quebec) an immigrant whose first language is neither french nor english.

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In a worried report, a université de montréal demographer suggests that so many francophones are mo…

noun

One of the ways in which a particular phoneme (= speech sound) can be pronounced