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complementary allophone

noun

Definitions

  1. A variant pronunciations of a phoneme that occur in specific phonetic contexts and do not…

    A variant pronunciations of a phoneme that occur in specific phonetic contexts and do not change the meaning of a word

    • ... complementary allophone of /i/, its occurrence being largely restricted to positions before /r, h, hw/. Similarly, the emergence of short 〈aú〉 /ɔ/ was primarily associated with PGmc. /u/ preceding the same three consonants. In Early[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for complementary allophone. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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