allophony
noun[U]
phoneticsspecializeduk/ˈæl.ə.fəʊ.ni//əˈlɒf.ə.ni/us/ˈæl.ə.foʊ.ni//əˈlɑː.fə.ni/thefactthat aparticularphoneme(=speechsound)can bepronouncedin more than one way:
音位变体The researchersstudyhowchildrendealwith allophony.研究人员探索儿童是如何应对音位变体现象的。
- ananalysisofJapaneseallophony
- It can bedifficulttorepresentallophony intranscriptions.
- Cruttendendiscussedconditionedallophony forEnglishschwa.
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- anaphor
- anaphora
- anaphoric
- chatty
- colloquial
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- etymologically
- flowery
- oxymoron
- philological
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism
- prescriptivist