- Diaphone (linguistics)
In
linguistics , the term diaphone refers to all thedialect al forms of aphoneme , 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