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Unit of speech
Answer for the clue "Unit of speech ", 7 letters:
phoneme
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Word definitions for phoneme in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"distinctive sound or group of sounds," 1889, from French phonème , from Greek phonema "a sound made, voice," from phonein "to sound or speak," from phone "sound, voice," from PIE root *bha- (2) "speak" (see fame (n.)).
Usage examples of phoneme.
But who was he, Enderby, to adapt a great tragedy to the limited talents, New World phonemes and intonations and slangy lapses, cecity towards the past, Pyrrhonism and so on of this weak cry of players?
The normal morpheme, in their language as in ours, consists of a sequence of phonemes.
Every phoneme was formed of two or three superposed sounds, and every morpheme was a blend of phonemes, flowing together like water.
When he connected me to the modem, his goal was to supplement my technical knowledge of speech -- phonemes, morphemes, syntax, lexicon, prosody, discourse -- with a broad-based knowledge of semantics.
The interpreter was supposed to enhance her ability to separate out phonemes and recognize syntactical patterns, not just store Middle English vocabulary, but she might as well be listening to Serbo-Croatian.
But who was he, Enderby, to adapt a great tragedy to the limited talents, New World phonemes and intonations and slangy lapses, cecity towards the past, Pyrrhonism and so on of this weak cry of players?
By repeating this term over and over, perhaps in the same rhythm at which you squeeze a ball, you can reduce it to an empty series of phonemes, just formants and fricatives, trochaically stressed, signifying zip.
The English phonemes sounded starkly alien as they echoed through his mind, and he wondered if he was even getting them right.
The phonemes formed more easily on their tongues now and their command of syntax had improved, but both of them still struggled with vocabulary.
Furthermore, they seemed unable to grasp the idea that an arrangement of phonemes could always have the same meaning regardless of pitch.
Compared with the paltry few dozen phonemes available in human languages, the richness of the Cygnan language must be beyond belief!
It fit the context and contained, within a cloud of embellishments, the set of phonemes that denoted something that was small in size or a model for something larger.
I hear one of them shout between computerese and the guttural hell of metallic phonemes.
Even after all this time—even with the downshifter gadget to make all the phonemes audible—Spidertalk was harder than any human language he knew of.
Each phoneme is created by a certain discrete set of physiological actions.