PHON & EME Shape Meaningful PHONEME consist of tow parts first part is PHON & eme . PHON ( means the shape of a sound ), when we add eme to PHON it becomes PHONEME. Phone & Phoneme
Timeline Lorem Ipsum PHONEME Phoneme: is the smallest unit of a language which makes difference in meaning. Phoneme is a set of allophone. An essential property of a phoneme is that it functions contrastively . A phoneme is a distinct speech sounds in a language. A Phoneme is a sound if we change it in a word the meaning also will change. E.g. CAT / k / SAT / s /
More Examples on Phonemes Transcription Phoneme Initially phoneme b reeze / f reeze / b riːz / - / f riːz / /b/ and /f/ are phonemes Middle phoneme b e ll / b i ll /b e l/ - / b ɪ l / /e/ and /ɪ/ / are phonemes End phoneme ha d / ha t / hæ d / - / hæ t / /d/ and /t/ / are phonemes
allophone What is allophone? One of tow or more variants of the same phoneme in a language. It does not change meaning . P en P ʰ ( strong puff) S p in P ( weak puff ) Sto p P ( no puff ) P P ʰ ( strong puff) P ( weak puff ) P ( no puff )
phoneme and allophone Phones sounds of language Phonemes significant sound differences Allophones non-significant sound differences Phone, Phoneme and Allophone