phoneme
phoneme
Definition
pho·neme (fō′nēm′)
noun
Linguis. a set of phonetically similar but slightly differing sounds in a language that are heard as the same sound by native speakers and are represented in phonemic transcription by the same symbol in English, the phoneme /p/ includes the phonetically differentiated sounds represented by p in “pin,” “spin,” and “tip”
Etymology: Fr phonème < Gr phōnēma, a sound < phōnein, to sound < phōnē, a voice: see phono-
phoneme
Synonyms
phoneme
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- blend: I would recommend selecting one program that concentrates on teaching segmenting and blending phonemes, with a focus on letter sounds.
- represent: Of course, basic sounds do not change in the sense that the phonemes represented in the IPA transcription will not go away.
- teach: Synthetic phonics teaches the 45 basic English phonemes from the outset.
- contain: No human language contains a phoneme that's made by slapping the cheek with the left hand.
- identify: Teach students to identify the separate phonemes within words, e.g. , what is the first sound of soup?
- hear: Pupils can make the sound that each grapheme represents then click the button to hear the phoneme.
Preposition: in
- word: In fact, we seldom encounter children over the age of 6 who have any difficulty hearing phonemes in words.
Adjective modifier
- English: Synthetic phonics teaches the 45 basic English phonemes from the outset.
- initial: All this after in September having no letter recognition, an inability to hear initial phonemes and having little concept of rhyme.
- single: At first, most of the new nodes and links will be for single phonemes.
- final: Click here Final phonemes - What is the last letter.. .
Modifies a noun
- segmentation: The second approach focused on phoneme segmentation and blending in the context of sounding out actual words.
- ie: In addition there are long vowel phoneme ie 1-e oe words and spelling lists. match mate is an adaptable matching pairs game.
- inventory: This paper proposes a phoneme inventory of Finnish Romani.
- classification: We report the promising results of phoneme classification experiments conducted on a standard continuous speech task.
- awareness: Yet, across all groups, phoneme awareness prior to instruction predicted later reading skill.
- recognition: The primary theoretical motivation for our position is that this form of on-line lexical feedback can't actually help word or phoneme recognition.
Noun used with modifier
Browse dictionary entries near phoneme
- -phone
- Phone Power
- phone phreak
- phone patch
- phone card
- phone book
- phone
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- phonetic
- phonetic alphabet
- phonetician
- phonetics
- phonetist
- phoney
- -phonia
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