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phoneme

[ US /ˈfoʊnim/ ]
NOUN
  1. (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language

How To Use phoneme In A Sentence

  • If there were minimal pairs, we would have to conclude that voiced and voiceless sonorants are separate phonemes.
  • By that time, Olson apparently was still convinced that this phoneme wasn't a labio-dental flap: The bilabial flap is a sound very similar to what is elsewhere called the labiodental flap, but the articulation is slightly different. Languagehat.com: NEW PHONETIC SYMBOL!
  • It's full of phonemes, guttural exclamations and limpid hisses.
  • Two phonemes: a voiced dental fricative and a schwa. Notes on Notes
  • The final tasks included matching of beginning sounds and ending sounds, awareness of rhyme, and phoneme deletion.
  • As they continue to develop, children learn to segment polysyllabic words into syllables as they approach kindergarten age and monosyllabic words into phonemes around first grade.
  • Well the epenthetic vowel might not even be the most correct name for it, since it clearly is a phoneme. I tripped over Pre-IE the other day
  • As for *h3, it may have been labialized, although other labial(ized) phonemes do not seem to cause o-coloring (at least not consistently). PIE Uvulars: A revised solution of their origin
  • Stress errors and phoneme substitutions or metatheses not attributable to dialect or articulation, however, were considered incorrect.
  • Presumably, children would rely on the consistent phoneme-to-grapheme conversion rules to spell regular words whereas they might rely on derivational relations to spell morphological words.
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