单词 | metaphone |
释义 | metaphonen. Phonetics. Either of two or more phonemes which are in free variation in particular words or in particular circumstances. Also: (in H. E. Palmer's terminology) a phoneme comprising more than one sound (cf. monophone n. 3) (disused). Cf. variphone n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > phoneme, allophone, etc. phonea1866 phoneme1879 metaphone1930 diaphone1932 variphone1932 morphoneme1933 morphophoneme1934 microphoneme1935 stress phoneme1936 archiphoneme1937 allophone1938 diaphoneme1939 prosodeme1939 keneme1950 proto-phoneme1951 idiophoneme1955 morphon1964 hypophoneme1966 morphophone1967 1930 H. E. Palmer Princ. Romanization ii. 52 Contrasted with monophones we have metaphones, which we may define as two or more phones which serve jointly as units of meaning within the limits of a given linguistic community. 1934 Yuen-Ren Chao in M. Joos Readings in Linguistics (1958) 38/2 A dynamophone is a metaphone which contains two or more phones differing..in quality. 1966 M. Pei Gloss. Ling. Terminol. Metaphone, a free allophonic variant chosen in preference to another because regarded as more suitable to the type of speech used (tomahto, eyether, used in a given situation instead of the more customary pronunciations of tomato, either). 1972 R. R. K. Hartmann & F. C. Stork Dict. Lang. & Linguistics 140 Metaphone, a free variant of a phoneme, e.g. [-ai] or [i:] in neither. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1930 |
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