As nouns the difference between phoneme and monophthong
is that phoneme is an indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones while monophthong is a vowel (in the sense of a sound rather than a letter of the alphabet) that has the same sound throughout its pronunciation, such as the short vowels in "pap", "pep", "pip", "pop" and "pup", as opposed to a diphthong (eg, /aɪ/, the vowel in "pipe") or a triphthong (eg, /aɪə/, the sound in the non-rhotic pronunciation of "pyre").
phoneme
English
Noun
(
en noun)
An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.
Derived terms
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* phonemic
* phonemical
* phonemically
* phonemicist
* phonemics
Related terms
* allophone
* allophonic
* allophonical
* allophonically
* allophonics
* diaphone
* diaphonic
* diaphonical
* diaphonically
* diaphonics
* diaphonologic
* diaphonological
* diaphonologically
* diaphonology
* phone
* phonetic
* phonetical
* phonetically
* phonetics
* phonic
* phonical
* phonically
* phonics
* phonologic
* phonological
* phonologically
* phonologist
* phonology
See also
* chereme
* chroneme
* grammeme
* grapheme
* lemma
* lexeme
* listeme
* morpheme
* sememe
* toneme
Anagrams
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monophthong
English
Noun
(
en noun)
A vowel (in the sense of a sound rather than a letter of the alphabet) that has the same sound throughout its pronunciation, such as the short vowels in "pap", "pep", "pip", "pop" and "pup", as opposed to a diphthong (eg, /a?/, the vowel in "pipe") or a triphthong (eg, /a??/, the sound in the non-rhotic pronunciation of "pyre").
Derived terms
* monophthongal
* monophthongization
