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A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish meaning.
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Multiple linguistic references, dictionaries, and peer-reviewed articles consistently define a phoneme as the smallest unit of sound in a language capable of distinguishing meaning.

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Wikipedia: Phoneme
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Wikipedia: English language
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York Press: An introduction to linguistics
1987 · cited by 0
Defines a phoneme as the smallest significant unit of sound in a language.
New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: An introduction to general linguistics
1967 · cited by 0
States the phoneme is a unit of contrast in a language, though lacks full detail in the excerpt.
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: An introduction to general linguistics
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Identical text to item 15 regarding unit of contrast.
OpenAIRE: The similarities of graphemes in Kazakh and Turkish languages
2019 · cited by 0
Defines a phoneme as the smallest contrastive sound unit in spoken language.
OpenAIRE: Student's Perspective On Learning English Phonemes
2023 · cited by 0
States phonemes are the smallest basic units that can distinguish meaning.
OpenAIRE: Segmental Language Changes And Phoneme Comparison Developments
2023 · cited by 0
Directly states that a phoneme is the smallest linguistic unit that can distinguish meaning.
OpenAIRE: Automatic phoneme segmentation of Tamil utterances
2015 · cited by 0
Defines phoneme as the smallest natural linguistic unit representing a unique sound in a language.
OpenAIRE: Phonology of English: Incisive Overview
2024 · cited by 0
States a phoneme is the smallest sound unit in a language.
OpenAIRE: Phoneme on/off mental image realisation
2022 · cited by 0
Describes phonemes as distinctive sound units capable of distinguishing a word from other words.
Everything we examined (24)
  1. Wikipedia: Phonemereferencesupports
  2. Wikipedia: English languagereferencesupports
  3. Book: The Dawn of Languagereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  4. Book: The Phonology of Shanghai Sign Languagereferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  5. Book: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Languagereferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  6. Book: The Psychology of Languagereferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  7. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Word Meaningreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Meaning Holismreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A Priorism in Moral Epistemologyreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  10. Wai yu jiao xue yu yan jiu chu ban she: Xian dai yu yan xue (fu xian dai yu yan xue zi xue kao shi da gang) = Modern Linguisticsreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. York Press: An introduction to linguisticsreferencesupports
  12. Yale University Press: German phonetics and phonology : theory and practicereferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  13. [Clarksville, Tenn.], [Queen City Pub.]: What every single teacher should know about language ... but may notreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  14. University of Toronto Press: The sounds, forms, and uses of Italian : an introduction to Italian linguisticsreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  15. College-Hill Press: Phonology : applications in communicative disordersreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  16. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: An introduction to general linguisticsreferencesupports
  17. Holt, Rinehart and Winston: An introduction to general linguisticsreferencesupports
  18. Wikisource: The Complete Lojban Language (1997)/Chapter 19referenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  19. OpenAIRE: The similarities of graphemes in Kazakh and Turkish languagespeer-reviewedsupports
  20. OpenAIRE: Student's Perspective On Learning English Phonemespeer-reviewedsupports
  21. OpenAIRE: Segmental Language Changes And Phoneme Comparison Developmentspeer-reviewedsupports
  22. OpenAIRE: Automatic phoneme segmentation of Tamil utterancespeer-reviewedsupports
  23. OpenAIRE: Phonology of English: Incisive Overviewpeer-reviewedsupports
  24. OpenAIRE: Phoneme on/off mental image realisationpeer-reviewedsupports
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