different between diaphoneme vs diaphone

English

Etymology

dia- +? phoneme

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?da???fo?nim/, /?da???fo?nim/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /da???f??ni?m/
• Hyphenation: di?a?pho?neme

Noun

diaphoneme (plural diaphonemes)

1. (phonology) An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
   • 1980, S. Noble & J.A. Fishman (trr.), M. Weinrich (auth.), P. Glasser (ed.), History of the Yiddish Language II (2008), ch. vii, pp. 467f.:

     The series with the long a as a point of departure…today has the diaphoneme /o?u/, and to be exhaustive the diaphoneme should be rendered /o?u?au?oi/, for in western Yiddish there are also the articulations /šlaufn/ and /šloifn/ (sleep). From the point of departure of long e (Early Vowel E?) Yiddish arrived at the diaphoneme /ei?ai/, for example in veynik (little) (cf. MHG wênic). In groys (big; Early Vowel O?) (cf. MHG gro?), Yiddish has the diaphoneme /ei?oi/; with the variant of Samogitia–Latvia (7.35), the symbolization will become still more complicated: /ei?øu?oi?ou/.

Derived terms

• diaphonematic
• diaphonemic
• diaphonemically
• diaphonemics

Translations

See also

• archiphoneme
• diaphone
• diaphonology
• diasystem

References

• OED (2nd ed., 1989), “diaphoneme”
• Merriam–Webster OnLine, “di·a·pho·neme” (retrieved the 25th of February, 2014)

Further reading

• diaphoneme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology 1

Noun

diaphone (plural diaphones)

1. A kind of organ pipe.
2. A sound signal which produces sound by means of a slotted piston moved back and forth by compressed air.

Translations

Etymology 2

From dia- +? phone (i.e., dia(lect) + phone).

Noun

diaphone (plural diaphones)

1. (phonology) A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme; all the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.

Related terms

• diaphoneme
• diaphonic
• diaphonology

Translations

Quotations

• 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

  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 and Raven McDavid, The Pronunciation of English in Atlantic States

  The regional and social dissemination of the diaphones of stressed vowels.