Diaphone (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a foghorn producing a low-pitched, penetrating signal of two tones.
  2. Phonetics.
    • a phoneme in one dialect corresponding to a similar but phonetically different phoneme in a related dialect.
    • a group of sounds comprising all the phonetically different dialectal variants of a given phoneme in a language: The broad a and flat a of “half” are members of a single diaphone.
noun
    • the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language
    • one of any number of corresponding sounds in different dialects of a language
  2. a foghorn that emits a two-toned signal
Diaphone (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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