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phoneme vs allophone

allophone vs phoneme

phoneme and allophone both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
phoneme Yes No No No
allophone Yes No No No
As nouns, allophone is a hyponym of phoneme; that is, allophone is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than phoneme:
  • phoneme: (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
  • allophone: (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
phoneme (noun) allophone (noun)
(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
Difference between phoneme and allophone

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