phoneme
pronunciation
How to pronounce phoneme in British English:
UK [ˈfəʊni:m]
How to pronounce phoneme in American English:
US [ˈfoʊnim]
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- Noun:
- (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
Word Origin
- phoneme (n.)
- "distinctive sound or group of sounds," 1889, from French phonème, from Greek phonema "a sound made, voice," from phonein "to sound or speak," from phone "sound, voice," from PIE root *bha- (2) "speak" (see fame (n.)).
Example
- 1. A phoneme is the smallest sound in a language-a group of phonemes forms a word .
- 2. Write out the corresponding phoneme according to the following description .
- 3. Allophone is a phonetic variant of a phoneme .
- 4. This paper is like reading the words , focusing only words the meaning of words instead of focusing constitute the letter and phoneme did .
- 5. The muscular activity associated with one phoneme is influenced by the phonemes that precede and follow it .