Phoneme vs. Allophone
Phonemenoun
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.
Phonemenoun
(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
Phonemenoun
any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another, for example p, b, d, and t in the English words pad, pat, bad, and bat.
Phoneme
In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language. For example, in most dialects of English, with the notable exception of the West Midlands and the north-west of England, the sound patterns (sin) and (sing) are two separate words that are distinguished by the substitution of one phoneme, /n/, for another phoneme, /ŋ/.
Allophonenoun
(phonology) Any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme.
Allophonenoun
(Canada) A person whose mother tongue is neither English, French nor an Indigenous language of Canada.
Allophonenoun
A person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority.
Allophoneadjective
(Canada) Of or relating to those whose mother tongue is neither English, French nor an Indigenous language of Canada
Allophoneadjective
That which is of a language other than that spoken by the majority.
Allophonenoun
any one of two or more speech sounds that considered variants of the same phoneme. For example, the p sounds of pin and spin are allophones of p; and the t sounds of toe stop and catnip are allophones of t.
Allophonenoun
(linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
Allophone
In phonology, an allophone (; from the Greek ἄλλος, állos, and φωνή, phōnē, ) is one of a set of multiple possible spoken sounds, or phones, or signs used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language. For example, in English, [t] (as in stop [stɒp]) and the aspirated form [tʰ] (as in top [ˈtʰɒp]) are allophones for the phoneme /t/, while these two are considered to be different phonemes in some languages such as Thai and Hindi.
