phoneme

英 ['fəʊniːm] 美 ['foʊniːm]

• n. 音位；音素

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 【语音】音素，音位（区分单词的最小的语音单位，sip 中的s和zip中的z是两个不同的音素）
2. <废>音
3. <废>音幻听

英英释义

Noun:

1. (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. English has 24 consonant phonemes.
   英语有24个辅音音素。
2. Phoneme segmentation plays a key role in speech recognition.
   音素分割在语音识别的过程中起着重要的作用。
3. In English, the 's' in 'sip' and the 'z' in 'zip' represent two different phonemes.
   英语中sip中的s和zip中的z为两个不同的音素。

经典引文

• The foreigner imitates the..new language as far as the phonemes of his native tongue allow.

  出自： E. H. Gombrich

词汇搭配

• phoneme typewrite 音素打字机