Phoneme

In oral language, a phoneme is the theoretical basic unit of sound that can be used to distinguish words or morphemes; in sign language, it is a similarly basic unit of hand shape, motion, position, or facial expression. (Formerly termed chereme.) That is, changing a phoneme in a word produces either nonsense, or a different word with a different meaning.

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• What is a phoneme? (SIL)
• What is an allophone? (SIL)
• What is a phone? (SIL)
• What is a phonetically similar segment? (SIL)
• What is a minimal pair? (SIL)
• What is complementary distribution? (SIL)
• What is an environment? (SIL)
• What is an contrast in identical environments? (SIL)
• What is an contrast in analogous environments? (SIL)
• Comparison of morpheme-morph-allomorph & phoneme-phone-allophone? (SIL)
• What is phonology? (SIL)
• Phoneme (Lexicon of Linguistics)
• Allophony (Lexicon of Linguistics)
• Transcription (Lexicon of Linguistics)
• Grapheme-Phoneme Conversion (Lexicon of Linguistics)
• Phoneme Restoration (Lexicon of Linguistics)
• phonemic awareness