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phoneme

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See also:Phonemeandphonème

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Etymology

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FromAncient Greekφώνημα(phṓnēma,“sound”), fromφωνέω(phōnéō,“to sound”), fromφωνή(phōnḗ,“sound”). Bysurface analysis,phone(“speech sound”) +‎-eme(“unit”).

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phoneme (pluralphonemes)

  2. (phonology) An indivisibleunit ofsound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several differentphones.
    Hypernym:syntagma
    • 1990, Jarmo Lainio, “Sweden Finnish — development or deterioration?”, in Durk Gorter, editor,Fourth International Conference on Minority Languages: Western and Eastern European papers‎[1], Multilingual Matters,→ISBN, page31:
      It is crucial for thephoneme structure of Finnish — traditionally /d/ has not been included in the Finnishphonotax, but it fulfils the criteria of aphoneme (Karlsson, 1983: 66-7).

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indivisible unit of sound

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