0 the fact that a particular phoneme (= speech sound) can be pronounced in more than one way:
The researchers study how children deal with allophony.
an analysis of Japanese allophony
It can be difficult to represent allophony in transcriptions.
Cruttenden discussed conditioned allophony for English schwa.
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