phoneme

Noun

1. (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
   • Less specific
     • phone
     • speech sound
     • sound
   • More specific
     • allophone
   • Related
     • phonemic
   • Topic Members
     • linguistics

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1. Phonetics any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another, for example p, b, d, and t in the English words pad, pat, bad, and bat. • Compare with allophone