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phonemic

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for phonemic.

Editorial note

Place names side, I like that Korean orthography is morpho-phonemic rather than striving for purely phonemic spelling.

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Quick take

(linguistics) Relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of phonemic gathered in one view.

adjective

(linguistics) Relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language.

adjective

(linguistics) Relating to phonemes.

adjective

(linguistics, of an orthography [writing system]) Corresponding precisely and consistently with the phonemes.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for phonemic.

adjective

(linguistics) Relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language.

adjective

(linguistics) Relating to phonemes.

adjective

(linguistics, of an orthography [writing system]) Corresponding precisely and consistently with the phonemes.

Example sentences

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Place names side, I like that Korean orthography is morpho-phonemic rather than striving for purely phonemic spelling.

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Yes, there are phonemic differences between accents within a language: but there is a change in the voice quality.

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Voice distinctions are allophonic in Korean; the phonemic difference between ㄱ and ㅋ is purely aspiration.

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Russian is indeed not strictly phonetic, thought it has a phonemic orthography to a degree.

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The blocks also aren't purely phonemic, either, since e..g verb conjugation postfixes can often attach a final consonant to a stem's last block.

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It involved discarding four letters, adding a horde of new letter combinations to represent underlying forms, and a drastic shift from purely phonemic to morphophonemic script.

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Those tests don't cover most of the test discussed here, though, since there's no assessment of phonemic processing abilities, resilience to distractions, etc.

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Stress in English is phonemic however, viz.

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Purely phonemic spelling is sort of overrated.

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For tonal languages, the use of tone as a distinguishing characteristic is similar to any other phonemic characteristic you would typically have to distinguish words in any other non-tonal language.

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Altho, arguably the phonemic representation is more flexible than the pictographical alternative --and we see that with pinyin and romaji serving a purpose in pictographical writing systems.

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However, the orthography isn't purely phonemic but rather morpho-phonemic and the morpheme boundaries happen to line up with block boundaries a lot - but in some sense most applications of the Latin alphabet aren't any less abstract; English orthography is anything but consistently phonemic after all.

Quote examples

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Roughly speaking, "phonetic" refers purely to the sounds, while "phonemic" goes into the more abstract level of grouping the sounds that are considered mere variations of a single sound to the speakers of that language.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use phonemic in a sentence?

Place names side, I like that Korean orthography is morpho-phonemic rather than striving for purely phonemic spelling.

What does phonemic mean?

(linguistics) Relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language.

What part of speech is phonemic?

phonemic is commonly used as adjective.