Diaphoneme Definition
noun
(linguistics) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
The transcription /əʊ‖oʊ/ represents the diaphoneme descended from the ancestral Old English phoneme /oː/, which is realised as [əʊ] in Received Pronunciation and as [oʊ] in General American.
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Origin of Diaphoneme
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dia- + phoneme
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