ALLOPHONE A speech sound constituting one of the phonetic variants of a given phoneme such as the different t-sounds of toe, tree, hatpin, catcall, catnip, button, city, etc. Compare: MORPHEME, PHONEME, PHONE. home
A speech sound constituting one of the phonetic variants of a given phoneme such as the different t-sounds of toe, tree, hatpin, catcall, catnip, button, city, etc.
Compare: MORPHEME, PHONEME, PHONE.
