allophony
noun [ U ] phonetics specialized uk/ˈæl.ə.fəʊ.ni/ /əˈlɒf.ə.ni/ us/ˈæl.ə.foʊ.ni/ /əˈlɑː.fə.ni/
音位变体
the fact that a particular phoneme (= speech sound) can be pronounced in more than one way
The researchers study how children deal with allophony. 研究人员探索儿童是如何应对音位变体现象的。
- More examples
- an analysis of Japanese allophony
- It can be difficult to represent allophony in transcriptions.
- Cruttenden discussed conditioned allophony for English schwa.