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phoneme Unit of speech sound that is capable of distinguishing one word from another.
Example:Since the words bat and pat are different words in English and differ only in the first sound, these two sounds are said to represent different phonemes, /b/ and /p/. (/ / denotes a transcription in terms of phonemes.)
Topics: Building words, General linguistic terms