phonemes

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The researchers also tested traditional linguistic elements such as phonemes and morphemes.

From Science Daily • Jan. 21, 2026

"We can capture the tone, the character, the style, the phonemes, and even if you have an accent, we can capture that as well," he told the Future Visionaries podcast in 2021.

From BBC • Aug. 31, 2024

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

In the days leading up to the Scripps National Spelling Bee, competitors made sure they knew their phonemes and root words.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Four Cape York languages had phonemes unusual for Australia, possibly because of the influence of New Guinea languages.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond