...In a language or dialect, a phoneme (from the , phōnēma, "a sound uttered") is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances. Read full entry
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- 1.Phoneme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The term phoneme as an abstraction was developed by the Polish linguist Jan ... The concept of the phoneme was then elaborated in the works of Nikolai ...
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- 2.phoneme: Definition from Answers.com
- phoneme ( ) n. The smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning, as the m of mat and the b of bat in
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What sentence contains every Just like "The quick brown fox
jumps over the three lazy
dogs" contains every letter in
the English alphabet, there is
a sentence that contains every
phoneme in the English
language. Bell Labs used to
use it to test line quality.
What is it?
A phoneme is any spoken sound
by the way... like, the words
"weather" and "please" both
have "ea" in them, but it's
two different phonemes.
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Eeeohaheh, urghphnrutherbean strengthoaboggle beabetyuition! Kandle burger bhaji biscuit? |
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Which phoneme varies most in I have to answer this question
for an English linguistics
exam. There's also another
question I have no idea where
to find an answer: "Which
variety of English has most
vowel phonemes? How many does
it have?"
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The first question sounds rather anecdotal, in the sense that the answer was most likely provided during instruction. But I'd say R. For the second part, look it up in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I PA_chart_for_English_dialects |
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What exactly is the difference |
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A phoneme is an atom of pronounced language. A grapheme is an atom of written language. For example, there's a phoneme called the "voiceless velar plosive" that initiates the English words "catch" and "king". It's IPA symbol is [k]. As a different example, there's a Latin-alphabetical grapheme called "c" that initiates the English words "chariot" and "ceiling". |
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