archiphonemen.
/ˌɑːkɪˈfəʊniːm/ Linguistics.
A phonological unit comprising the totality of distinguishable features common to two or more phonemes.
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phonea1866
phoneme1879
metaphone1930
diaphone1932
variphone1932
morphoneme1933
morphophoneme1934
microphoneme1935
stress phoneme1936
archiphoneme1937
allophone1938
diaphoneme1939
prosodeme1939
keneme1950
proto-phoneme1951
idiophoneme1955
morphon1964
hypophoneme1966
morphophone1967
1937 A. Tanakadate in Mélanges de Linguistique offerts à J. van Ginneken 360 Taguti finds in films of the Japanese sonants wave elements corresponding to their surds, which are their archiphonemes.
1952 A. Cohen Phonemes of Eng. ii. 35 In the phenomenon known as neutralization of opposition he [sc. Troubetzkoy] works with the notion of archiphoneme which is: ‘die Gesamtheit der distinktiven Eigenschaften, die zwei Phonemen gemeinsam sind.’
1964 E. Palmer tr. A. Martinet Elements Gen. Linguistics iii. 69 If the phoneme is defined as the sum of the relevant features, the archiphoneme is the sum of the relevant features common to two or more phonemes which alone present them all.
Derivatives
archiphoˈnemic adj.
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1956 Archivum Linguisticum 8 115 The suspension of phonematic opposition which is often called ‘archiphonemic’.
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