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Phonemic

//fəˈniː.mɪk// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to phonemes. not-comparable

    "We've finished our phonemic analysis and we're ready to move on to morphology."

  2. 2
    Relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language. not-comparable

    "Tone is phonemic in Chinese."

  3. 3
    Corresponding precisely and consistently with the phonemes. not-comparable

    "Spanish orthography is highly phonemic: you can tell exactly how the words sound just by looking at how they are spelled."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to phonemes of a particular language wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    by phonemics wordnet

Etymology

From phoneme + -ic.

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