allophones
Meaning of allophones
plural noun
any of the various phonetic realizations of a phoneme in a language, which do not contribute to distinctions of meaning. For example, in English an aspirated p (as in pin ) and unaspirated p (as in spin ) are allophones of the phoneme /p/, whereas in ancient Greek the distinction was phonemic.
1930s: from allo- ‘other, different’ + phoneme.
plural noun
(especially in Quebec) an immigrant whose first language is neither French nor English.
1970s: from allo-, on the pattern of francophone.
Information about allophones
- It is a name.
- The singular form of allophones is: allophone.
- Languages in which allophones is used:
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Hyphenation of allophones
al-lo-phones
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- allophones is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with allophones
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