Meaning | (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language. |
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Category | linguistics | The scientific study of language |
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Narrower | allophone | (linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme |
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Broader | phone, speech sound, sound | (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language |
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Spanish | fonema |
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Catalan | fonema |
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Adjectives | phonemic | of or relating to phonemes of a particular language |
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