Definition of "phonemics" []

• The study and establishment of the phonemes of a language. (noun)

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• "So – the diacritics are a feature of phonetics (not phonemics) and of tension, not lengthening."
• "Orton-Gillingham is a multisensory approach that uses phonemics and three basic learning pathways: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic."
• "With Tennysonian phonemics epitomized by example in this same stanza, the "silent-speaking words" of text, in this case the letters of the dead, give virtual voice to silence rather than merely speaking from it."