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allophonics

allophonics noun: allophony or its study.

Noun

allophonics (uncountable)

  1. Allophony or its study
    • The vowel allophonics are much richer than the consonantal allophonics chiefly because vowels take on the colouring of the adjacent emphatic or emphatic-like consonants [...]1990, Bernard Comrie, The Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa
    • Rather they fall essentially within allophonics — the are of linguistic enquiry which deals with allophones.2007, James Dickins, Sudanese Arabic: Phonematics and Syllable Structure

Origin of allophonics

From allophony + -ics.

Questions about allophonics

What does allophonics mean?
Allophonics means allophony or its study.
What part of speech is allophonics?
Allophonics is a noun.

Words near allophonics in the dictionary

  1. allophonate
  2. allophone
  3. allophones
  4. allophonic
  5. allophonically
  6. allophonics
  7. allophony
  8. allophycocyan
  9. allophycocyanin
  10. allophycocyanine
  11. allophycocyanines

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