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diaphonemes

diaphonemes is the plural of diaphoneme.

Meaning of diaphoneme

Noun

diaphoneme (plural diaphonemes)

  1. An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
    • The transcription /oː‖əʊ‖oʊ/ or {oː} represents the diaphoneme descended from the ancestral Early Modern English phoneme /oː/, which is preserved in Irish English as [oː] but has become [əʊ] in Received Pronunciation and as [oʊ] in General American.

Questions about diaphonemes

What is diaphonemes the plural of?
Diaphonemes is the plural of diaphoneme.

Words near diaphonemes in the dictionary

  1. diaphilosophical
  2. diaphilosophy
  3. diaphoenicon
  4. diaphone
  5. diaphoneme
  6. diaphonemes
  7. diaphonemic
  8. diaphones
  9. diaphonic
  10. diaphonical
  11. diaphonically

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