phonemes
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Second, lip movement is closely tied to speech sounds, which change rapidly and depend on complex sequences of phonemes.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 16, 2026
According to Rendell, the evidence shows whales are mainly repeating the same phoneme over and over again instead of actually combining varieties of phonemes into complex words.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2024
"This system is trained to know what words should come before other ones, and which phonemes make what words," study co-author Dr Frank Willett, Stanford said.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2023
Teachers in kindergarten through second grade will be required to use a phonics-based curriculum, which teaches the 44 unique sounds in the English language known as phonemes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2022
For example, they had to figure out how to decompose a continuous utterance into speech units, regardless of whether those units were taken as words, syllables, or phonemes.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
