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ALLOPHONIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does allophonic mean? 

ALLOPHONIC (adjective)
  The adjective ALLOPHONIC has 1 sense:

1. pertaining to allophonesplay

  Familiarity information: ALLOPHONIC used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ALLOPHONIC (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Pertaining to allophones

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

allophone ((linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme)

Derivation:

allophone ((linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme)


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