A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a language that can change the meaning of a word. It's like a building block of sounds that helps us understand words and communicate with each other. Full definition
Atkinson shows a negative correlation between the number of phonemes in a language and its distance from Africa, and, assuming that phonemic diversity is subject to a serial founder effect, claims that this finding supports an African origin of language. (sciencemag.org)
Quiz themboth orally and on paper Listen to their retellings Have them read from the basic sight word list Select a variety of papers that demonstrates their progress in spelling Administer and score an attitude survey for each one Give them the unit pretests and prepare the end - of - level posttests Prepare a cloze passage for them See if each one can segment a word into phonemes Take a running record of everyones oral reading for the... (educationworld.com)
We could represent the possible sequences of phoneme states and their probabilities in a diagram, with looping arrows to indicate states that have repeated across several frames of the spectrogram: (scientificamerican.com)