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1. allophoneLinguistics
Noun
2. strange noise
  • モーター
  • から
  • いおん異音
  • している
The motor is making a strange sound.
Wikipedia definition
3. AllophoneIn phonology, an allophone is one of a set of multiple possible spoken sounds used to pronounce a single phoneme. For example, [pʰ pʰ] (as in pin) and [p p] (as in spin) are allophones for the phoneme /p/ in the English language. Although a phoneme's allophones are all alternative pronunciations for a phoneme, the specific allophone selected in a given situation is often predictable.
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