Diaphoneme
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diaphoneme-177-6023075
title:
Diaphoneme
text:
A diaphoneme is an abstract phonological unit that identifies a correspondence between related sounds of two or more varieties of a language or language cluster. For example, some English varieties contrast the vowel of late with that of wait or eight. Other English varieties contrast the vowel of late or wait with that of eight. This non-overlapping pair of phonemes from two different varieties can be reconciled by positing three different diaphonemes: A first diaphoneme for words like late, a
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description:
Concept in dialectology analyzing phonemes across dialects of a language
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaphoneme
date created:
2006-06-10T02:50:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T00:06:50Z
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