phonemic

[ fuh-nee-mik, foh- ]
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adjective
  1. of or relating to phonemes: a phonemic system.

  2. of or relating to phonemics.

  1. concerning or involving the discrimination of distinctive speech elements of a language: a phonemic contrast.

Origin of phonemic

1
First recorded in 1930–35; phoneme + -ic

Other words from phonemic

  • pho·ne·mi·cal·ly, adverb
  • non·pho·ne·mic, adjective
  • non·pho·ne·mi·cal·ly, adverb

Words Nearby phonemic

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British Dictionary definitions for phonemic

phonemic

/ (fəˈniːmɪk) /


adjectivelinguistics
  1. of or relating to the phoneme

  2. relating to or denoting speech sounds that belong to different phonemes rather than being allophonic variants of the same phoneme: Compare phonetic (def. 2)

  1. of or relating to phonemics

Derived forms of phonemic

  • phonemically, adverb

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