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Definitions of phoneme in various dictionaries:
noun - (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
adj - a unit of speech [n -S] : PHONEMIC
PHONEME - A phoneme () is one of the units of sound (or gesture in the case of sign languages, see chereme) that distinguish one word from another in a particu...
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| 'Call!' |
| Unit of speech |
| Pronunciation unit |
| Letter sound |
| Speech sound |
| Speech unit |
| Basic linguistic unit |
| Figure of speech? |
| "Here's my number" |
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| The smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning, as the m of mat and the b of bat in English. |
| any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another, for example ipi, ibi, idi, and iti in the English words ipadi, ipati, ibadi, and ibati. |
| (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language |
| one of the smallest units of speech that make one word different from another word: |
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A phoneme () is one of the units of sound (or gesture in the case of sign languages, see chereme) that distinguish one word from another in a particular language. For example, in most dialects of English, the sound patterns (thumb) and (dumb) are two separate words distinguished by the substitution of one phoneme, //, for another phoneme, /d/. (Two words like this that differ in meaning through a contrast of a single phoneme form what is called a minimal pair). In many other languages these would be interpreted as exactly the same set of phonemes (i.e. // and /d/ would be considered the same). * In linguistics, phonemes (usually established by the use of minimal pairs, such as kill vs kiss or pat vs bat) are written between slashes, e.g. /p/. To show pronunciation more precisely linguists use square brackets, for example [p] (indicating an aspirated p). * Within linguistics there are differing views as to exactly what phonemes are and how a given language should be analyzed in phonemic ( |