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allophone
[al-uh-fohn]
noun
any of the members of a class of speech sounds that, taken together, are commonly felt to be a phoneme, as the t- sounds of toe, stow, tree, hatpin, catcall, cats, catnip, button, metal, city; a speech sound constituting one of the phonetic manifestations or variants of a particular phoneme.
allophone
/ ˌæləˈfɒnɪk, ˈæləˌfəʊn /
noun
any of several speech sounds that are regarded as contextual or environmental variants of the same phoneme. In English the aspirated initial (p) in pot and the unaspirated (p) in spot are allophones of the phoneme /p/
a Canadian whose native language is neither French nor English
Other 51Թ Forms
- allophonic adjective
- allophonically adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of allophone1
Example Sentences
As a result, allophone children often face learning and communication difficulties in kindergarten, which can negatively impact their educational journey.
At the time of the survey, 6.1% of kindergarten children in Quebec came from allophone families, amounting to 4,360 children.
This is the first study to specifically examine the impact of preschool services on the readiness of allophone children entering kindergarten.
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