The sound exists in the language only as an allophone of the phoneme /t/.
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Allophone
/ˈæləˌfoʊn/
Synonyms for "allophone" (37 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Noun(1 words)
conditioned realization
Strong matches (11)
Related words (18)
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6 entriesaspiration allophonecomplementary distribution allophonefree variation allophonenasalized allophonepalatalized allophonevoicing allophone
Collocations
6 entriescomplementary distributioncontextual allophonefree variationphoneme realizationphonological rulespeech sound variant
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
2 entriesTranslations
6 translations across 4 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- vähemmistökieltä äidinkielenään puhuva noun (person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority)
French
1 entries- allophone noun (person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority)
German
2 entries- Allophone noun (person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority)
- Allophoner noun (person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority)
Spanish
2 entries- alófona noun (person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority)
- alófono noun (person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
The sound exists in the language, but only as an allophone.
Source: tatoeba (6037955)
The phone [b] exists in the language only as an allophone of /p/.
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In some languages, [ʋ] is an allophone of /v/.
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Showing 4 of 8 available sentences.