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allophonic

Variant of allophone

noun

Linguis. any of the variant forms of a phoneme as conditioned by position or adjoining sounds: the relatively short (a) of mat and the relatively long (a) of mad are allophones

Origin: allo- + phone

Related Forms:

allophonic adjective

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