phoneme

«phoneme» in Mova's school dictionary: The smallest unit of sound in a language that can change… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a phoneme, phonemes)

meaning for a pupil

(language) The smallest unit of sound in a language that can change the meaning of a word, such as /c/, /a/, /t/ in "cat"; changing /c/ to /h/ gives "hat". tree →

sense in the lessons

In phonics lessons, children split words into phonemes ("sh-i-p" has 3 phonemes) and match them to letters or groups of letters (graphemes). English has about 44 phonemes but only 26 letters. Phrases: segment phonemes, blend phonemes.

examples

• "Ship" has three phonemes: sh-i-p. tree →
• The word "cat" has three phonemes. tree →
• Change one phoneme in "pin" to get "pan". tree →
• English has about 44 phonemes. tree →
• The letters "igh" make one phoneme in "night". tree →
• Robots learn to recognise phonemes in speech. tree →

note

Countable. Pronounced "FOH-neem". A phoneme is a sound; a grapheme is the letter or letters that write it. Number of phonemes is not the same as number of letters: "night" has 5 letters but 3 phonemes (n-igh-t).

In the corpora

• A phoneme is one sound in a word; a grapheme is the letter or letters that write that sound.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «phoneme» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.