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• n  (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language

• Using fMRI, scientists have determined that beginning readers rely most heavily on the phoneme producer and the word analyzer.
• Using FMRI, scientists have determined that beginning readers rely most heavily on the phoneme producer and the word analyzer.
• The public and many of the news commentators seem unwilling to pronounce Sputnik correctly, with the phoneme of the vowel sound of "boot" rather than that of "but.

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• Altitude May Influence Language Sounds
  The human voice is capable of forming a plethora of incredibly different sounds. So many, in fact, that each individual language contains only a subset of potential sound units, or phonemes. What factors determine whether a phoneme enters common use, or is relegated to silence? It turns out, geography may play a role. [More]
  June 12, 2013 - Scientific American