a minimal sound unit of speech that, when contrasted with another phoneme, affects the naming of words in a language (e g , /b/ in book contrasts with /t/ in took, /k/ in cook, /h/ in hook)
The smallest speech sounds that make a difference in the meaning of a word (There are 39-45 phonemes in the English language )
A minimally distinct sound in the context of a particular spoken language For example, in American English, /p/ and /b/ are distinct phonemes because pat and bat are distinct; however, the two different sounds of /t/ in tick and stick are not distinct in English, even though they are distinct in other languages such as Thai
The smallest structural unit of sound in any language that can be used to distinguish one word from another
(1) One of the smallest units of speech (or class of phones) that distinguishes one word from another: e g , p, b, and f in pan, ban, and fan (2) Hearing of imaginary voices
{i} syllable; sound, utterance; smallest units of speech upon which a language is based
The simplest significant unit of sound A phoneme may also have various allophones
- smallest unit of speech sound that can be used to distinguish one meaningful utterance from another in a given language
An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones
In linguistics, a set of closely related speech sounds (phones) regarded as a single sound For example, the sound of "r" in red, bring, or round is a phoneme
the smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning "M", in "man," and "c", in "can," are phonemes See also: morpheme
Elementary sound of a language defined by the properties which differentiate it from the other sounds in the language The word "father" is made up of 4 phonemes "f", "a" "th" and "er"
A phoneme is a member of the set of the smallest units of speech that serve to distinguish one utterance from another in a language or dialect Example: cat vs rat
The smallest unit of sound in spoken language There are 42 distinct phonemes in the English language Phonemes, blended together, make words For example, the word cat consists of three phonemes, /k/ /a/ /t/, which make a single sound when blended, /kat/
Smallest unit of sound in a language that conveys meaning eg , /ph/ and /0/ in phoneme
The basic speech sound unit of a spoken language distinguishable by how it is produced and which is combined with other sound units to create words (Solso)
the smallest sound unit in a word - often represented by a single letter ('a', 'm') but sometimes by a combination of two letters, as in a digraph
[n] The basic units of meaningful spoken sound in a language, by which morphemes, words, and sentences are constructed Languages usually have about 20-60 phonemes, which are different in each language For example, 'p' and 'b' are recognized as different phonemes in the English language because they not only represent different sounds, but also carry different meanings (as in pit versus bit)