Noun: allophone 'a-lu,fown
- (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme
"In English, the 't' sounds in 'top' and 'stop' are allophones of the same phoneme"
- [Cdn] An immigrant to Québec whose first language is neither English nor French
"The school offered special language classes for allophone students"
Derived forms: allophones
Type of: phoneme
Encyclopedia: Allophone