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аллофон
One of the phonetic variants that belong to a single phoneme. For example, the phoneme /p/ of English has two allophones. One, (ph), has a puff of air after the lips open, and occurs at the beginnings of words such as "pit". The other, (p), does not have a puff of air, and occurs after /s/ as in "spit".
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