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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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Some orthographies, such as Spanish, are relatively shallow, maintaining a one to one correspondence between grapheme and phoneme.
For linguists who analyze phonological systems wholly in terms of the phoneme, phonemics is coextensive with phonology.
These word segments are then transcribed in the form of phoneme chains and subsequently decrypted using a language model and phoneme dictionary.
Stress errors and phoneme substitutions or metatheses not attributable to dialect or articulation, however, were considered incorrect.
To develop the ability to translate a phoneme into its corresponding grapheme.
The grapheme is to the graphic linguistic signifier as the phoneme is to the phonic linguistic signifier.

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