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Phoneme Set Smallest Units Speech Sound Language Distinguish

Front phoneme
Back Any one of the set of the smallest units of speech sound in a language that distinguish one word from another. For example, the phonemes /p/, /k/, and /b/ differentiate the words pat, cat, and bat.

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