ALLOPHONE
Dictionary entry overview: What does allophone mean? • ALLOPHONE (noun)
The noun ALLOPHONE has 1 sense:
1. (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
Familiarity information: ALLOPHONE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ALLOPHONE (noun)
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)
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