English
Etymology 1
Noun
en-noun
#A kind of organ pipe.
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Etymology 2
Dialect|Dia(lect) + phone
Noun
en-noun
#linguistics A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme.
#All the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.
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Related terms
diaphoneme
diaphonic
Quotations
1929: F. W. Taylor, the Orthography of African Languages (in Journal of the Royal African Society)
:I may read �gas� as �gas,� and you as �gahs�; you may say �aspect� and I may say �ahspect.� Such diaphones, as they are called in phonetics, must always be spelled in but one way only;
1930: Practical Orthography of African Languages
:The term Diaphone is used to denote a normal sound together with the variants of it heard from different speakers of the same language.
1932: w:Daniel Jones (phonetician)|Daniel Jones, Outline of English Phonetics
:The term diaphone is used to denote a sound used by one group of speakers together with other sounds which replace it in the pronunciation of other speakers.
1950: w:Daniel Jones (phonetician)|Daniel Jones, The Phoneme
:Overlapping of diaphones is ... especially liable to happen when a sound lies near the limit of a diaphonic �area�.
1953: William J. Entwistle, Aspects of Language
:The diaphones are also found in the speech of a single individual.
1961: Hans Kurath and Raven McDavid?, The Pronunciation of English in Atlantic States
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