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English
Etymology
xeno- + -phone
Pronunciation
Noun
xenophone (plural xenophones)
- (phonetics) A sound in speech that is not native to the language being spoken; a sound from a foreign language.
Translations
A sound in speech that is not native to a language
References
The term was introduced in:
Robert Eklund & Anders Lindström. 1998.
How To Handle “Foreign” Sounds in Swedish Text-to-Speech Conversion: Approaching the ‘Xenophone’ Problem.
Proceedings of The International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 30 November–5 December 1998, Sydney, Australia. Paper 514, vol. 7, pp. 2831–2834.
Also see:
Xenophone
In: Jack. S. Damico & Martin J. Ball (eds.): The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders, Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, ISBN 978-1-4833-4, volume 4, pp. 2127–2129.
Also see:
http://xenophones.info