- (phonetics语音学) a sound that is slightly different from another sound, although both sounds belong to the same phoneme and the difference does not affect meaning. For example, the /l/ at the beginning of little is different from the /l/ at the end.音位变体,同位音(同一音位有不同发音,如 little 中的第一个 /l/ 与结尾的 /l/ 发音不同)Topics Languagec2
- (Canadian English) a person who comes to live in Canada, especially Quebec, from another country, whose first language is neither French nor English(尤指魁北克省)母语既非法语也非英语的加拿大人
Word Origin1930s: from allo- ‘other, different’ + phoneme.