allophone

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al·lo·phone / ˈaləˌfōn/ • n. Linguistics any of the speech sounds that represent a single phoneme, such as the aspirated k in kit and the unaspirated k in skit, which are allophones of the phoneme k.DERIVATIVES: al·lo·phon·ic / ˌaləˈfänik/ adj.

ALLOPHONE

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ALLOPHONE. See
1. ANGLOPHONE,

2. PHONEME.