Phoneme

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  phoneme
       n : (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are
           distinguished by the speakers of a particular language

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "phoneme":
     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