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Sounds vs Phoneme - What's the difference?

sounds | phoneme |

As nouns the difference between sounds and phoneme

is that sounds is plural of lang=en while 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.

As a verb sounds

is third-person singular of sound.

sounds

English

Noun

(head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (sound)

    • 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

    * * * 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

    External links

    * (wikipedia "phoneme")

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