Meaning of PHONEME
Pronunciation: | | 'fowneem
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| Definition: | | [n] (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language |
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| See Also: | | allophone, phone, sound, speech sound | |
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| Definition: | | a class of sounds that differ slightly from one another but that may be substituted for one another without any change of meaning. |
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| Related Terms: | | allophone, alveolar, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, bilabial, cacuminal, cerebral, check, consonant, continuant, dental, diphthong, dissimilation, epenthetic vowel, explosive, glide, glottal, glottalization, guttural, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lingual, liquid, manner of articulation, modification, monophthong, morphophoneme, mute, nasal, occlusive, palatal, parasitic vowel, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phone, plosive, prothetic vowel, retroflex, segmental phoneme, semivowel, sonant, sonority, speech sound, stop, surd, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, transition sound, triphthong, velar, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel |
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