Defenition of the word phoneme

• Defenition of the word phoneme

  • The smallest unit of sound which distinguishes meaning in a language.
  • A cognitive abstraction of a meaningless physical unit of a spoken or signed word.
  • (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language

Hyponyms for the word phoneme

• • allophone

Hypernyms for the word phoneme

• • phone
  • sound
  • speech sound

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