Meaning & use
allophone
One of several different sounds used to pronounce a single phoneme in a language.
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The aspirated and unaspirated 'p' sounds in English are allophones of the same phoneme.
Linguists studied which allophones speakers used depending on a sound's position in a word.
A note on using this word
Allophones do not change a word's meaning, unlike distinct phonemes, which do change meaning.
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