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phoneme
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun phoneme has 1 sense
- phoneme(n = noun.communication) Array - (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language; Array is a kind of phone, sound, speech sound
has particulars: allophone
Derived form adjective phonemic1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
phoneme, n. any of the units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another (e.g. p, b, d, t as in pad, pat, bad, bat, in English).
Derivative
phonemic adj. phonemics n.
Etymology
F phon{egrave}me f. Gk phonema sound, speech f. phoneo speak
THESAURUS
phoneme
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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