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Words related to phonemes

pho·neme
P p

  • archiphoneme

    an abstract linguistic unit representing two or more phonemes when the distinction between these has been neutralized: conventionally shown by a capital letter within slashes, as /T/ for /t/ and /d/ in German Rat and Rad

  • autonomous phoneme

    a phoneme that is defined or determined by its contrast in sound with other phonemes, without reference to its role in morphology or any other level of linguistic analysis beyond the phonetic level.

  • centum

    denoting or belonging to the Indo-European languages in which original velar stops (k) were not palatalized, namely languages of the Hellenic, Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Anatolian, and Tocharian branches

  • consonant shift

    a change, or a set of connected changes, in the articulation of consonants in any language or family of languages

  • consonant system

    the consonant phonemes of a language, especially when considered as forming an interrelated and interacting group.

  • distinctive feature

    a feature of the sound system of a language that serves as the crucial distinguishing mark between two phonemes, as the distinctive feature of voicing, which distinguishes b from p in English, or nasality, which distinguishes m from b and p.
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