| Lemma | phoneme |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Hockett (1958) |
| Titolo | A Course in Modern Linguistics |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | allophone (inglese) speech sound (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | […] a phoneme is defined not as a speech sound or allophone, but as a ‘range’ of speech sound which functions as a point of contrast in an interlocking network of contrasts. A pnoneme is defined not so much in terms of what it “is” or what it “sounds like”, as in terms of what it is not-what, within the same language, it differs from. A phoneme is defined, not as a sound produced in such- and such a manner, but as a point of reference in an interlocking network of contrasts. The phonemes of a language, then, are the elements which stands in contrast with each other in the phonological system of the language. |