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Allophone

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Linguistics A predictable phonetic variant of a phoneme. For example, the aspirated t of top, the unaspirated t of stop, and the tt (pronounced as a flap) of batter are allophones of the English phoneme /t/.

n. Canadian A person whose native language is other than French or English.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme.

n. A person whose mother tongue is neither English nor French.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. any one of two or more speech sounds that considered variants of the same phoneme. .

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme

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