phoneme
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phonemes
plural
phonemes
Learner's definition of PHONEME
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linguistics
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the smallest unit of speech that can be used to make one word different from another word
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The sounds represented by “c” and “b” are different phonemes, as in the words “cat” and “bat.”
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phonemically distinct
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