Phonemic contrast
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Phonemic contrast
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Phonemic contrast refers to a minimal phonetic difference, that is, small differences in speech sounds, that makes a difference in how the sound is perceived by listeners, and can therefore lead to different mental lexical entries for words. For example, whether a sound is voiced or unvoiced matters for how a sound is perceived in many languages, such that changing this phonetic feature can yield a different word; see Phoneme. Another example in English of a phonemic contrast would be the differ
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Phonetic differences that make meaning distinct in a given language
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2024-04-06T18:24:24Z
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