allophonics
nounEtymology From allophony + -ics.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Allophony or its study
- The vowel allophonics are much richer than the consonantal allophonics chiefly because vowels take on the colouring of the adjacent emphatic or emphatic-like consonants [...]1990, Bernard Comrie, The Major Languages of South Asia, the Middle East and Africa:
- Rather they fall essentially within allophonics — the are of linguistic enquiry which deals with allophones.2007, James Dickins, Sudanese Arabic: Phonematics and Syllable Structure:
- Related terms
- allophonic