Allophone Definition

ălə-fōn
noun
A predictable phonetic variant of a phoneme. For example, the aspirated t of top, the unaspirated t of stop, and the tt (pronounced as a flap) of batter are allophones of the English phoneme /t/.
American Heritage
Any of the variant forms of a phoneme as conditioned by position or adjoining sounds.
The relatively short (a) of mat and the relatively long (a) of mad are allophones.
Webster's New World
A person whose native language is other than French or English.
American Heritage

(linguistics) Any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme.

Wiktionary
(Canada) A person whose mother tongue is neither English nor French.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Allophone

Noun

Singular:
allophone
Plural:
allophones

Origin of Allophone

  • allo– phone(me)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • allo- +‎ -phone

    From Wiktionary

Allophone Sentence Examples

  • However, all the features of the vector sequences may not necessarily have a common allophone clustering structures.

  • It is considered that the vector sequences can be better modeled by allocating the optimal allophone clustering structure to each feature.

  • The phoneme /x / (voiceless) has a positional allophone [G] (voiced ).

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Words Starting With

AALALL

Words Ending With

ENEONE

Unscrambles

allophone

Words Starting With A and Ending With E

Starts With A & Ends With EStarts With AL & Ends With EStarts With A & Ends With NE

Word Length

9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With A9 Letter Words Ending With E