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  • noun The study and establishment of the phonemes of a language.

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  • noun linguistics The study of phonemes and their written representations.

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  • noun the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes

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Examples

  • So – the diacritics are a feature of phonetics (not phonemics) and of tension, not lengthening.

    P is for Phonemic Chart « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Orton-Gillingham is a multisensory approach that uses phonemics and three basic learning pathways: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.

    Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010

  • Orton-Gillingham is a multisensory approach that uses phonemics and three basic learning pathways: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.

    Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010

  • The notes appended here represent my first and necessarily tentative analysis of certain patterns in Linyaari phonemics and morphophonemics.

    Massage 2010

  • With Tennysonian phonemics epitomized by example in this same stanza, the "silent-speaking words" of text, in this case the letters of the dead, give virtual voice to silence rather than merely speaking from it.

    Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

  • I find it's better to transcribe a language based on phonemics rather than phonetics.

    The net doesn't have to be an intellectual wasteland for Etruscan studies 2008

  • Early-reading proponents say it would be more accurate to describe this practice as "phonics writing," to get across the message that it's an exercise in phonemics (the way letters represent sounds) rather than true spelling.

    The Right Way To Read 2007

  • * The notes appended here represent my first and necessarily tentative analysis of certain patterns in Linyaari phonemics and morphophonemics.

    First Warning McCaffrey, Anne 2005

  • To begin with, many transcriptions do not really understand phonemics, and waste a lot of effort trying to represent the actual sound of each phoneme.

    languagehat.com: MICRONESIAN ORTHOGRAPHY. 2004

  • The notes appended here represent my first and necessarily tentative analysis of certain patterns in Linyaari phonemics and morphophonemics.

    Acorna's Rebels McCaffrey, Anne 2003

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