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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
- phonemic system the system of phonemes recognized in a language
- morphophoneme (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme
- prosodic of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing
- assibilation the development of a consonant phoneme into a sibilant