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al·lo·phone    Audio Help   [al-uh-fohn] Pronunciation Key
–noun Phonetics.
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.
[Origin: 1930–35; allo- + phone2]

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al·lo·phon·ic    Audio Help   [al-uh-fon-ik] Pronunciation Key, adjective
al·lo·phon·i·cal·ly, adverb
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