Phememe
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Phememe
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A phememe is a hypothesized speech sound with an abstract gestural meaning, proposed by the linguist Mary LeCron Foster. According to Foster, phememes were the fundamental building block of the earliest human spoken language, as opposed to the phonemes of attested languages, contemporary or historical. The phememe concept is thus important in the debate regarding the gestural origin of speech. By way of an example, the sound [m], as a meaningful oral gesture, is understood as pointing to “two op
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2023-04-18T19:00:27Z
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