PHONEME


Meaning of PHONEME in English

noun

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■ NOUN

vowel

Diphthongs are made from a simple vowel phoneme followed by one of,,.

■ VERB

represent

Alphabetic systems possess an inventory of symbols, called an alphabet, to represent the individual phonemes .

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At the lexical level the frame of discernment consists of words expressed as ordered sets of phonemes.

For example, the validity of a string of phonemes depends on what is in the lexical data base.

It should be noted, however, that the problems discussed above with reference to phoneme recognition apply to other units such as syllables as well.

More marginal are those in which there is correspondence only in some of the segmental phonemes.

One cause is the effort that children in all societies must make to master the phonemes of their language.

The particular phoneme used generally depends on the surrounding sounds or the position of the sound in a word.

The question might be answered by saying that the new phonemes are to be classed as vowels.

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