diaphonicadj.1
/dʌɪəˈfɒnɪk/ 1. Of or pertaining to diaphony: see diaphony n. 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > [adjective] > other kinds of harmony
monodic1806
diaphonic1822
paraphonic1836
monophonic1852
homophonic1879
barbershop1910
quartal1937
1822 New Monthly Mag. 6 201/2 To give a concert with a full orchestra upon the diaphonic principle.
2. = diacoustic adj.
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1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Diaphonic.
1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Diaphonic.
Derivatives
diaphonical adj.
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1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Diaphonical.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
diaphonicadj.2
/dʌɪəˈfɒnɪk/ Linguistics.
Of or relating to a diaphone or diaphones.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > phoneme, allophone, etc.
diaphonic1932
morphonemic1934
morphophonemic1934
subphonemic1935
microphonemic1936
monophonemic1936
allophonic1938
diaphonemic1939
monophonematic1940
diphonemic1950
idiophonemic1958
morphophonic1962
morphophonematic1964
hypophonemic1966
morphonic1966
1932 D. Jones Outl. Eng. Phonetics (ed. 3) xv. 108 There exist..diaphonic variants; that is to say, there are English speakers who use a somewhat different diphthong.
1950 D. Jones Phoneme xxvii. 198 Overlapping of diaphones is..especially liable to happen when a sound lies near the limit of a diaphonic ‘area’.
1965 Amer. Speech 40 227 The pronunciation (tagə·)..is phonologically unlikely in the diaphonic variations before (g).
Derivatives
diaˈphonically adv.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adverb] > phoneme, allophone, etc.
morphophonemically1940
subphonemically1947
diaphonically1950
allophonically1951
diaphonemically1959
monophonematically1961
hypophonemically1969
1950 D. Jones Phoneme xxvii. 202 The ʔ belongs diaphonically to k and p as well as to t.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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