'phoneme' definitions:
Definition of 'phoneme'
(from WordNet)
noun
(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
Definition of 'phoneme'
From: GCIDE
- phoneme \pho"neme\ (f[=o]"n[-e]m) n. (Linguistics) One of a small set of speech sounds that are used by and distinguished by the speakers of a particular language. They are combined into morphemes, words, and sentences. [WordNet 1.5 + PJC]
Synonyms of 'phoneme'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilation,
- bilabial,
- cacuminal,
- cerebral,
- check,
- consonant,
- continuant,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilation,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- glide,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- guttural,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- manner of articulation,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- nasal,
- occlusive,
- palatal,
- parasitic vowel,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- phone,
- plosive,
- prothetic vowel,
- retroflex,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- stop,
- surd,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- transition sound,
- triphthong,
- velar,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel