Diaphone (linguistics)

Diaphone (linguistics)

In linguistics, the term diaphone refers to all the dialectal forms of a phoneme, considered a whole.


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  • Diaphoneme — In linguistics, a diaphoneme or diaphone is a phoneme viewed through its dialectal variants, called diaphonic variants or diaphonic allophones.[1] For example, the vowel that constitutes the English word eye /aɪ/ is pronounced d …   Wikipedia

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