diaphone
[ dahy-uh-fohn ]
/ ˈdaɪ əˌfoʊn /
noun
a foghorn producing a low-pitched, penetrating signal of two tones.
Phonetics.
- a phoneme in one dialect corresponding to a similar but phonetically different phoneme in a related dialect.
- a group of sounds comprising all the phonetically different dialectal variants of a given phoneme in a language: The broad a and flat a of “half” are members of a single diaphone.
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British Dictionary definitions for diaphone
diaphone
/ (ˈdaɪəˌfəʊn) /
noun
- the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
- one of any number of corresponding sounds in different dialects of a language
a foghorn that emits a two-toned signal
Word Origin for diaphone
C20: from dia (lect) + phone ²
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