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noun(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular languagetype of:
Definition that contains phoneme
- phone (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- sound (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- roll pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/
- syllable a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme
- trill pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r'
- phonology the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
- lallation defective articulation of the `l' phoneme or the phoneme `r' is pronounced as `l'
- phonemics the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
- phonemic of or relating to phonemes of a particular language
- lambdacism speech defect involving excessive use or unusual pronunciation of the phoneme `l'