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Phoneme
In human
language
, a
phoneme
is the smallest posited structural unit that distinguishes meaning. Phonemes are not the physical
segments
themselves, but, in theoretical terms, cognitive
abstractions
or categorizations of them.
An example of a phoneme is the
/t/
sound in the words
t
ip, s
t
and, wa
t
er,
and
ca
t
.
(In transcription, phonemes are placed between slashes, as here.) These instances of /t/ are considered to fall under the same sound category despite the fact that in each word they are pronounced somewhat differently. The difference may not even be audible to native speakers. That is, a phoneme may encompass several recognizably different
speech sounds,
...