phonemes
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"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
Other neurons reflected more complex aspects of word construction such as the specific assembly of phonemes into syllables.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024
People with aphasia may exhibit linguistic errors such as the inversion, substitution, addition or subtraction of phonemes when communicating.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023
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
