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phoneme vs speech sound

speech sound vs phoneme

phoneme and speech sound both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
phoneme Yes No No No
speech sound Yes No No No
As nouns, speech sound is a hypernym of phoneme; that is, speech sound is a word with a broader meaning than phoneme:
  • phoneme: (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
  • speech sound: (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
Other hypernyms of phoneme include phone, sound.
phoneme (noun) speech sound (noun)
(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
Difference between phoneme and speech sound

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