A diaphoneme is an abstract phonological unit that identifies a correspondence between related sounds of two or more varieties of a language or language cluster. For example, New York may be transcribed phonemically as /nuː ˈjɔrk/ in American English and /njuː ˈjɔːk/ in Received Pronunciation.
A diaphoneme is an abstract phonological unit that identifies a correspondence between related sounds of two or more varieties of a language or language cluster. For example, New York may be transcribed phonemically as /nuː ˈjɔrk/ in American English and /njuː ˈjɔːk/ in Received Pronunciation.
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