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diaphone
[dahy-uh-fohn]
noun
a foghorn producing a low-pitched, penetrating signal of two tones.
Phonetics.
a phoneme in one dialect corresponding to a similar but phonetically different phoneme in a related dialect.
a group of sounds comprising all the phonetically different dialectal variants of a given phoneme in a language.
The broad a and flat a of “half” are members of a single diaphone.
diaphone
/ ˈ岹ɪəˌəʊ /
noun
the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
one of any number of corresponding sounds in different dialects of a language
a foghorn that emits a two-toned signal
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of diaphone1
Example Sentences
But the payoff for me came when he demonstrated the station’s rare 1934 diaphone fog signal, which sounds off with two descending blasts, basso profundo.
From the lighthouse station far to the east he could hear the low, steady intonation of the fog signal diaphone.
The whistle of the freighter and the lighthouse diaphone sounded again in the fog.
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