Just the arbitrary associations we make with something as harmless as a phoneme.
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It is also commonly used for the latter phoneme to transcribe names or loanwords.
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There are many-to-one grapheme phoneme correspondences and tons of irregularities.
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This is only possible, however, if you allow more than one grapheme for a phoneme.
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A given phoneme may well be represented by different letters in different periods.
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Three phoneme clusters are 21 in number, which are written by 27 conjunct clusters.
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Biuniqueness is a property of the phoneme in classic structuralist phonemics.
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Inherent in its approach are the concepts of the phoneme, the morpheme and the root.
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The Macedonian digraph Dz, like in Polish and Hungarian represents a single phoneme.
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(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
(phonemic) of or relating to phonemes of a particular language; "phonemic analysis"
A phoneme /u02C8fou028Aniu02D0m/ 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. The difference in meaning between the English words kill and kiss is a result of the exchange of the phoneme /l/ for the phoneme /s/. Two words that differ in meaning through a contrast of a single phoneme form a minimal pair.
The phoneME project is Sun Microsystems reference implementation of Java virtual machine and associated libraries of Java ME with source, licensed under the GNU General Public License.
An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones
(phonemic) relating to phonemes; relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language
(Phonemes) The smallest parts of spoken language that combine to form words. For example, the word hit is made up of three phonemes (h-i-t) and differs by one phoneme from the words pit, hip and hot.
(Phonemes) Are letter or letter commendations of sounds
(Phonemes) Basic units of speech that make up words.