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  • noun phonetics An adjacent pair of phones.

Etymologies

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From di- + -phone.

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Examples

  • Bush warblers are particularly newsworthy right now (to my mind at any rate) given that the just-published oscine supertree of Jønsson & Fjeldså (2006) found Cettia to be diphyletic, with C. cetti grouping with the tesias* and Urosphena (the stubtails) while the Japanese bush warbler C. diphone grouped with the Broad-billed flycatcher-warbler Tickellia hodgsoni and Orthotomus (the tailorbirds).

    Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • It doesn’t depict an Odedi (sorry), but a Japanese bush warbler C. diphone.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

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