GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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Question
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The smallest meaningful combination of sounds in a language
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The basic sounds of consonants and vowels
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Something that specifies the meaning of words and phrases
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A special form of communication
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Detailed explanation-1: -phoneme. noun. pho·neme ˈfō-ˌnēm. : a member of the set of the smallest units of speech that serve to distinguish one utterance from another in a language or dialect.
Detailed explanation-2: -The English Language is created through the different combinations of 44 sounds (phonemes), 20 vowels and 24 consonants. In our written language we refer to the letters of the alphabet as being consonant or vowel letters depending on which type of sound they are representing.
Detailed explanation-3: -Phonemes are not the basic units of speech. Phonemes are categories of sounds abstracted from the speech of people in a given community that change the meaning of utterances. They are not separate sounds which are combined together to form speech.
Detailed explanation-4: -vowels are phonemes/sounds that are not consonants. vowel phonemes can be represented by a variety of letter, well beyond A E I O and U. every syllable has a vowel phoneme.