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Phoneme

Phoneme Meaning & Definition
Phoneme Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Phoneme?

[n] (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language

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Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | allophone | phone | sound | speech sound

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