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    ALLOPHONE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phonemeplay

    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)

    Derivation:

    allophonic (pertaining to allophones)

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