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    Phoneme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • The term phoneme as an abstraction was developed by the Polish linguist Jan ... Conceptions of the phoneme were then elaborated in the works of Nikolai ...
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneme
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    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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Questions/Answers
What sentence contains everyphoneme in the Englishlanguage?
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.
Eeeohaheh, urghphnrutherbean strengthoaboggle beabetyuition! Kandle burger bhaji biscuit?
What exactly is the differencebetween a phoneme and agrapheme?
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".
Can anyone give me achild-friendly definition of aphoneme ?
I have googled and wikipedia'd etc but it's still too difficult for my brother. He's 9. Thanks !
The longest sounding letter in a word. example in the word Cake the phoneme would be A CAAAAAke. or in the word Rip the Phoneme would be R as in RRRRRRRRRRip. LOL thats the best i can explain it.
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