phoneme
n.音位,音素
难易程度:
phoneme为短语/超纲词汇
词根
phon=sound(声音);phe=to speak(说话)
phoneme
/'fəʊni:m; `fonim/
n (linguistics 语言) any one of the set of smallest distinctive speech sounds in a language that distinguish one word from another 音位; 音素
*English has
24 consonant phonemes. 英语有24个辅音音素.
* In English, the `s' in `sip' and the `z' in `zip' represent two different phonemes. 英语中sip中的s和zip中的z为两个不同的音素.
phoneme
n[C]technical
[Date: 1800-1900; Language: French;Origin: phonème, from Greek phonema 'speech sound']
the smallest unit of speech that can be used to make one word different from another word, such as the 'b' and the 'p' in 'big' and 'pig'
>phonemic [fə'niːmɪk/