diaphone
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
diaphone (plural diaphones)
- A kind of organ pipe.
- A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.
Translations edit
kind of pipe organ
sound signal
Etymology 2 edit
From dia- + phone (i.e., dia(lect) + phone).
Noun edit
diaphone (plural diaphones)
- (phonology) A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme; all the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.
Quotations edit
- 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[1]:
- 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, 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, 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, Raven McDavid, The Pronunciation of English in Atlantic States:
- The regional and social dissemination of the diaphones of stressed vowels.