phoneme -
(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
speech sound,
phone,
sound (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
linguistics the humanistic study of language and literature
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Wiktionary
Substantiv
phoneme -
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.
Wikipedia
In a language or dialect, a phoneme is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances. Thus a phoneme is a group of slightly different sounds which are all perceived to have the same function by speakers of the language or dialect in question. An example of a phoneme is the /k/ sound in the words kit and skill.
OmegaWiki Dictionary
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phoneme The smallest unit of sound which distinguishes meaning in a language.
phoneme A cognitive abstraction of a meaningless physical unit of a spoken or signed word.
