单词 | diaphone |
释义 | diaphone /duy"euh fohn'/, n. 1. a foghorn producing a low-pitched, penetrating signal of two tones. 2. Phonet. a. a phoneme in one dialect corresponding to a similar but phonetically different phoneme in a related dialect. b. a group of sounds comprising all the phonetically different dialectal variants of a given phoneme in a language: The broad a and flat a of "half" are members of a single diaphone. [1905-10; DIA- + -PHONE] |
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