Phonemes and phonology
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• These sounds are grouped into closely related families of sounds; each such family acts as a single unit from a phonemic point of view. We call these families “phonemes,” and in some respects we are more aware of these phonemes than we are of the very sounds themselves. A word can be viewed as a sequence of sounds, or as a sequence of phonemes. Neither view is more correct; they are at different levels of abstraction.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010