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How to pronounce phoneme in English?

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Type Words
Type of phone, sound, speech sound
Has types allophone
Derivation phonemic

Examples of phoneme

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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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More examples
  • (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.