1) Phoneme
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[Quebec] In Quebec, an allophone is a resident, usually an immigrant, whose mother tongue or home language is neither French nor English. The term can also be sometimes used in other parts of Canada. The term parallels Anglophone (English-speaker), and Francophone, which designate people whose mother tongues are English and French, respecti...
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one of the phonetically distinct variants of a phoneme (q.v.). The occurrence of one allophone rather than another is usually determined by its ... [2 related articles]
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A predictable change in the articulation of a phoneme. For example, the letter t in the word top is
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Allophones are alternative pronunciations of phonemes in a particular language that never affect the meaning. For example RP English has clear /l/ at the beginning of words such as lick, dark /l/ at the end of words such as kill, but these do not change the words if the wrong one is used; in Polish the two /l/s are different phonemes.
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n] - (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
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allophone, allophonic 1. One of the slightly differing forms that the same single speech sound (phoneme) can take. One of two or more articulatorily and acoustically different forms of the same phoneme; the aspirated p of 'pin' and the nonaspirated p of 'spin' are allophones of the phoneme p. 2. An immigrant in Quebec who speaks neither English no...
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noun (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
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any of the members of a class of speech sounds that, taken together, are commonly felt to be a phoneme, as the t-sounds of toe, stow, tree, hatpin, catcall, cats, catnip, button, metal, city; a speech sound constituting one of the phonetic manifestations or variants of a particular phoneme.
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The realisation of a phoneme. Each segment has different realisations which are only partly distinguishable for speakers. A phoneme can have different allophones, frequently depending on position in the word or on a preceding vowel, e.g. [l] and [ɫ] in English (at the beginning and end of a word respectively) or [ç] and [x] in German ...
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