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(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
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In spoken language, a phoneme is a basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words (that is, changing a phoneme in a word, produces another word, that has a different meaning). The phoneme is a basic sound segment, whose linguistic function is to distinguish a word's morphemes. Phonemes are not physical sounds, but abstractions. Phonemes are recognized as a family of phones, that are regarded as a single sound, and represented by a common symbol. ...
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A unit of a sound in a language.
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Significant sound contrast in a language that serves to distinguish meaning, as in minimal pairs.
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the smallest unit of sound that does not alter the meaning of words in which it occurs.
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