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What is a phoneme?

What is a phoneme? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.
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For linguists who analyze phonological systems wholly in terms of the phoneme, phonemics is coextensive with phonology.
The initial step is the conversion of the word sequences to a phoneme transcription graph.
The two researchers are convinced that the brains of dyslexics store an improper and unreliable representation of phoneme sounds.
Stress errors and phoneme substitutions or metatheses not attributable to dialect or articulation, however, were considered incorrect.
The grapheme is to the graphic linguistic signifier as the phoneme is to the phonic linguistic signifier.
The final tasks included matching of beginning sounds and ending sounds, awareness of rhyme, and phoneme deletion.

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