'Compound phonemes' are combinations of simple phonemes which act as units so far as meaning and word-structure are concerned.
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.90

[...] 'compound phonemes' - that is, sounds resembling a succession of two or more phonemes of the same language, but in some way distinguished from such a succession, and utilized as separate phonemes.
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.120

Many compound phonemes consist of a stop plus a spirant or other open consonant [...]
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.120

[...] compound phonemes, which resemble successions of other phonemes, but play the part of a simple phoneme [...]
- Bloomfield (1935), a pag.136