Phonemic

/fəˈniː.mɪk/

Synonyms for "phonemic" (124 found)

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Closest matches (25)

accented alveolar apical apico-alveolar apico-dental articulated assimilated back barytone bilabial broad cacuminal central cerebral checked close consonant consonantal continuant dental

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descriptive dissimilated dorsal

Adjective(2 words)

alphabetic systemfeatural

Strong matches (37)

flat front glide glossal glottal glottochronological grammatic grammatical graphemic guttural hard heavy high intonated labial labiodental labiovelar lateral lax lexicographic

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lexicological lexicostatistical light lingual linguistic liquid low metalinguistic mid monophthongal morphological morphophonemic muted narrow nasal

Noun(2 words)

language unit lessonletter sound

Related words (62)

nasalized occlusive open oxytone palatal palatalized pharyngeal pharyngealized philological phonetic phonic phonological pitch pitched posttonic psycholinguistic retroflex rounded semantic semivowel

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soft sonant stopped stressed strong structural surd syllabic syntactic tense thick throaty tonal tonic twangy unaccented unrounded unstressed velar vocalic vocoid voiced voiceless vowel vowellike weak wide

Adjective(9 words)

nonorthographic conventionphonemic analysisphonological conceptphonological descriptorphonological frameworksegmental shavian sound-contrastivespanish pronunciation rules

Noun(5 words)

phoneme based assessmentportuguese pronunciation chartspeech relatedvowel inventoryvowel phoneme

Adverb(1 words)

phonemically

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linguistic featurephonology concept

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contrastive phonemesphoneme inventory

Sample sentences

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All children in the PRC learn the Roman alphabet for phonemic pinyin.

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As a nationalist feeling, real Japanese think that the heart of their language is the phonemic Kana, not the logographic Kanji.

Source: tatoeba (2162175)

English spelling is not phonemic.

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A phonemic writing system as in Spanish or Greek is like musical notation.

Source: tatoeba (10582792)

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