Look up: phoneme

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   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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   Phoneme
   The basic classes of sounds used to form the words of a language. Examples in English are 'k', 'oo', and 'th'. They are often represented by single written letters.
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   Phoneme
   A phoneme is the smallest contrastive unit of sound in a word. There are approximately 44 phonemes in English (the number varies depending on the accent). A phoneme may have variant pronunciations in different positions; for example, the first and last sounds in the word 'little' are variants of the phoneme /l/. A phoneme may be represented by one...
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   phoneme
   smallest element of a speech signal Category: Language and literature
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   phoneme
   The smallest sound unit which, in terms of the phonetic sequences of sound, controls meaning. ... Origin: G. Phonema, a voice ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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   phoneme
   noun (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
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   Phoneme
   In human language, a `phoneme` is the smallest unit of speech that distinguishes meaning. Phonemes are not the physical segments themselves, but cognitive abstractions of them. An example of a phoneme is the found in the words `t`ip, s`t`and, wri`t`er,` and `ca`t`.` (In transcription, phonemes are placed between slashes, as here.) These are conceived of as being the same sound, despite the fact that in each word they are pronounced somewhat dif...
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   phoneme
   (fo´nēm) the smallest distinct unit of sound in speech; the basic unit of spoken language.
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   phoneme
   in linguistics, smallest unit of speech distinguishing one word (or word element) from another, as the sound p in `tap,` which separates that word ... [8 related articles]
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    phoneme
    phoneme 1. The smallest unit of speech that distinguishes one utterance from another in all of the variations that it displays in the speech of a single person or particular dialect as the result of modifying influences (as neighboring sounds and stress). 2. The smallest sound unit which, in terms of phonetic sequences of sound, controls meaning. 3. The ba...
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    Phoneme
    The smallest unit of speech that serves to distinguish one utterance from another in a language
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