Associations to the word «Allophone»

Wiktionary

ALLOPHONE, noun. (phonetics) Any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme.
ALLOPHONE, noun. (Canada) A person whose mother tongue is neither English nor French.

Dictionary definition

ALLOPHONE, noun. (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky