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What is the difference between phoneme and allophone?

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Allophone is a related term of phoneme.



As nouns the difference between phoneme and allophone

is that phoneme is an indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones while allophone is any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme.

phoneme

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.

    • Derived terms

    * * * phonemic * phonemical * phonemically * phonemicist * phonemics

    Related terms

    * allophone * allophonic * allophonical * allophonically * allophonics * diaphone * diaphonic * diaphonical * diaphonically * diaphonics * diaphonologic * diaphonological * diaphonologically * diaphonology * phone * phonetic * phonetical * phonetically * phonetics * phonic * phonical * phonically * phonics * phonologic * phonological * phonologically * phonologist * phonology

    See also

    * chereme * chroneme * grammeme * grapheme * lemma * lexeme * listeme * morpheme * sememe * toneme

    External links

    * (wikipedia "phoneme")

    Anagrams

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    allophone

    English

    (wikipedia allophone)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (phonetics) Any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme.
  • (Canada) A person whose mother tongue is neither English nor French.

    • See also

    * (l)