“variphone”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

variphone

释义

variphone Linguistics.|ˈvɛərɪfəʊn|
[f. vari- + phone n.¹]
One of two or more sounds used interchangeably by the same speaker in the same phonetic context.
1932D. Jones in E. P. Hamp et al. Readings in Linguistics II (1966) 32 Variphones are found in some varieties of German, where p and b, ʃ and ʒ, and other corresponding voiced and voiceless consonants are apparently used indifferently.1934Yuen-Ren Chao in M. Joos Readings in Linguistics I (1966) (ed. 4) 39/2 Bloomfield makes no explicit mention of free phonemes or variphones.Ibid., Variphones are also phonemes, except that the choice of the exact shade of the sound used is determined by psychological and physiological factors other than those of phonetic environment.1950D. Jones Phoneme xxviii. 206 ŋg and ŋ form a variphone in the speech of Midland districts of England.

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