phonemes

• Language is something to be meted out in small phonemes, you know -- just little hmm, hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm. —  Carmen Agra Deedy spins stories
• It was a simple greeting, augmented with symbols for alien phonemes: X for glottal click for nasalized whistle. —  FSFMagazine,July2007
• Even though we can represent the abstract structure of a word as a string of phonemes, in the real acoustic signal these blur together into a single gestalt. —  AnalogSFF,May2007
• In most of these after-session get-togethers — usually in the kitchen, occasionally in the woods — they spoke not of phonemes or the Visual Aural Digit Span Test or Sarah's book but of more personal things. —  The Lesson of Her Death
• From the first, the hard vowels, those inflections ... I told myself that since the phonemes were produced by similar cranial structures, the language had to sound that way. —  FSF, July 2006

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