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Noun: allophone  'a-lu`fown
  1. (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
     
  2. [Cdn] An immigrant to Québec whose first language is neither English or French

Derived forms: allophones

See also: allophonic

Type of: phoneme

Encyclopedia: Allophone

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