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pho·neme
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autonomous phoneme
a phoneme that is defined or determined by its contrast in sound with other phonemes, without reference to its role in morphology or any other level of linguistic analysis beyond the phonetic level. -
diaphone
the set of all realizations of a given phoneme in a language -
allophone
any of several speech sounds that are regarded as contextual or environmental variants of the same phoneme. In English the aspirated initial (p) in pot and the unaspirated (p) in spot are allophones of the phoneme /p/ -
systematic phoneme
a phonological unit in generative phonology representing an underlying form that takes into account the relationship between phonological patterns and morphological variation, as the unit underlying the second vowel in both derive and derivative. -
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-eme
indicating a minimal distinctive unit of a specified type in a language