diaphoneme
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdaɪəˌfoʊnim/, /ˌdaɪəˈfoʊnim/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /daɪəˈfəʊniːm/
- Hyphenation: di‧a‧pho‧neme
Noun[edit]
diaphoneme (plural diaphonemes)
- (phonology) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
- The transcription /oː‖əʊ‖oʊ/ or {oː} represents the diaphoneme descended from the ancestral Old English phoneme /oː/, which is preserved in Irish English as [oː] but has become [əʊ] in Received Pronunciation and as [oʊ] in General American.
- 1980, S. Noble & J.A. Fishman (trr.), M. Weinrich (auth.), P. Glasser (ed.), History of the Yiddish Language II (2008), ch. vii, pp. 467f.:
- The series with the long a as a point of departure…today has the diaphoneme /o‖u/, and to be exhaustive the diaphoneme should be rendered /o‖u‖au‖oi/, for in western Yiddish there are also the articulations /šlaufn/ and /šloifn/ (sleep). From the point of departure of long e (Early Vowel E₂) Yiddish arrived at the diaphoneme /ei‖ai/, for example in veynik (little) (cf. MHG wênic). In groys (big; Early Vowel O₂) (cf. MHG groȥ), Yiddish has the diaphoneme /ei‖oi/; with the variant of Samogitia–Latvia (7.35), the symbolization will become still more complicated: /ei‖øu‖oi‖ou/.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
abstract phonological unit denoting all the dialectal variations of a phoneme
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- OED (2nd ed., 1989), “diaphoneme”
- Merriam–Webster OnLine, “di·a·pho·neme” (retrieved the 25th of February, 2014)
Further reading[edit]
diaphoneme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
