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

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Amy Tan