What part of speech is allophones?

Allophones can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. allophones is a noun, plural of allophone.

Inflections

Noun

What does allophones mean?

Definitions

Noun

allophone - (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme

Examples of allophones

#   Sentence  
1. noun The two phones, which initially were allophones of a single phoneme, became distinct phonemes as a result of these sound changes.
2. noun The sound exists in the language only as an allophone of the phoneme /t/.
3. noun The sound exists in the language, but only as an allophone.
4. noun The phone [b] exists in the language only as an allophone of /p/.
5. noun The sound exists in the language only as an allophone of the phoneme /t/.
6. noun The sound exists in the language, but only as an allophone.
7. noun The phone [b] exists in the language only as an allophone of /p/.
Sentence  
noun
The two phones, which initially were allophones of a single phoneme, became distinct phonemes as a result of these sound changes.
The sound exists in the language only as an allophone of the phoneme /t/.
The sound exists in the language, but only as an allophone.
The phone [b] exists in the language only as an allophone of /p/.
The sound exists in the language only as an allophone of the phoneme /t/.
The sound exists in the language, but only as an allophone.
The phone [b] exists in the language only as an allophone of /p/.

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