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phoneme
has definitions from the fields of linguistics,phonetics
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[ noun ] (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
Used in print (H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)While the phonemes can be very easily stated , no one is likely to be satisfied with the statement until phonemic occurrences can be related in_some_way to morphemic units , i._e. until the morphophonemics is worked_out , or at_least far enough that it seems reasonable to expect success . Phonemes connected by a morphophonemic rule commonly show a good bit of phonetic similarity , possible because of the several dimensions of contrast in the system . Related terms |
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