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What is "phonemic"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
phonemic

1933, from phoneme + -ic. Related: Phonemics (1936); phonemically.

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phonemic

a. 1 (context linguistics English) relating to phonemes 2 (context linguistics English) relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language

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phonemic

  1. adj. of or relating to phonemes of a particular language; "phonemic analysis"

  2. adv. by phonemics; "phonemically transcribed"

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Usage examples of "phonemic".

With a human translator sound is processed, and understood morphemically, which understanding is then reprocessed into the new phonemic structures.