Phonemics

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

  phonemics \pho*ne"mics\ (f[-o]*n[=e]"m[i^]ks), n. (Linguistics)
     The study of the sound system of a given language and the
     analysis and classification of its phonemes.
  
     Syn: phonology.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  phonemics
       n : the study of the sound system of a given language and the
           analysis and classification of its phonemes [syn: {phonology}]