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Phoneme Language Y Smallest Contrastive Distinctive Meaning Distinguishing

term Phoneme
definition smallest contrastive (distinctive, meaning-
distinguishing) unit in the sound system of a language
(kleinste bedeutungsunterscheidende Einheit)
- How to establish what phonemes there are in a given
language (= the phoneme inventory of a language):
minimal pair/set analysis
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