Definition of "phonemes" []

• Plural form of phoneme. (noun)

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• "In childhood, there are three, critical "ring acts" that go into the development of reading: learning about the world of letters; learning about the individual sounds inside of words which linguists call phonemes; and learning a very great deal about words."
• "And there they are, all the twenty-six letters but forty-four sounds called phonemes."
• "Such "" natural language understanding '' works by breaking up all words into the component sounds called phonemes -- the "" aaas '' and "" chs '' -- and calculating the most probable meaning."