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diaphone definition

dia·phone (dī′ə fōn′)

noun

a group of speech sounds consisting of all the variants of a given phoneme in all the utterances of all the speakers of a given language

Etymology: dia- + -phone

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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