What does allophone mean?
Definitions for allophone
ˈæl əˌfoʊnal·lo·phone
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Princeton's WordNet
allophonenoun
(linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
GCIDE
allophonenoun
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.
Wiktionary
allophonenoun
Any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme.
allophonenoun
A person whose mother tongue is neither English nor French.
Wikipedia
Allophone
In phonology, an allophone (; from the Greek ἄλλος, állos, 'other' and φωνή, phōnē, 'voice, sound') is a set of multiple possible spoken sounds – or phones – or signs used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language. For example, in English, the voiceless plosive [t] (as in stop [ˈstɒp]) and the aspirated form [tʰ] (as in top [ˈtʰɒp]) are allophones for the phoneme /t/, while these two are considered to be different phonemes in some languages such as Thai. On the other hand, in Spanish, [d] (as in dolor [doˈloɾ]) and [ð] (as in nada [ˈnaða]) are allophones for the phoneme /d/, 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 phoneme in the language as a single distinctive sound and are "both unaware of and even shocked by" the allophone variations that are used to pronounce single phonemes.
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allophone
An allophone is a variant form of a phoneme, which is perceived as the same sound by native speakers but it varies in pronunciation depending on its phonetic context in a specific language. In other words, it's one of the possible sounds that a certain letter or group of letters can make without changing the meaning of the words it is used in.
Wikidata
Allophone
In phonology, an allophone is one of a set of multiple possible spoken sounds used to pronounce a single phoneme. For example, and are allophones for the phoneme in the English language. Although a phoneme's allophones are all alternative pronunciations for a phoneme, the specific allophone selected in a given situation is often predictable. Changing the allophone used by native speakers for a given phoneme in a specific context usually will not change the meaning of a word but the result may sound non-native or unintelligible. Native speakers of a given language usually perceive one phoneme in their language as a single distinctive sound in that language and are "both unaware of and even shocked by" the allophone variations used to pronounce single phonemes.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of allophone in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of allophone in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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- ألوفونArabic
- alofonoEsperanto
- alófonoSpanish
- allofoniFinnish
- allophoneFrench
- allafónIrish
- alofonIndonesian
- 異音Japanese
- 異音, 이음Korean
- аллофонRussian
- alofonSerbo-Croatian
- allofonSwedish
- ایلوفونUrdu
- tha âm vịVietnamese
- 异音Chinese
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