monophonematicadj.
/ˌmɒnə(ʊ)fəʊnᵻˈmatɪk/, U.S. /ˌmɑnəˌfoʊnəˈmædɪk/ Linguistics. Now rare.
= monophonemic adj.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > phoneme, allophone, etc.
diaphonic1932
morphonemic1934
morphophonemic1934
subphonemic1935
microphonemic1936
monophonemic1936
allophonic1938
diaphonemic1939
monophonematic1940
diphonemic1950
idiophonemic1958
morphophonic1962
morphophonematic1964
hypophonemic1966
morphonic1966
1940 Language 16 249 The argument for the monophonematic character of Dutch ei,..(and the same applies to the English sounds in bite..) can be shown not to hold if the total structure of the syllable and the behavior of the..diphthongs are examined.
1952 A. Cohen Phonemes of Eng. ii. 24 The problem of how to decide whether we have to do with one or more phonemes (monophonematic or polyphonematic interpretation).
1961 Brno Stud. in Eng. 3 68 It is..in this medium section of the concerned sound trace that this most essential quality of the monophonematic diphthong must obtain the most obvious prominence.
Derivatives
ˌmonophoneˈmatically adv. according to monophonematic proportions.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adverb] > phoneme, allophone, etc.
morphophonemically1940
subphonemically1947
diaphonically1950
allophonically1951
diaphonemically1959
monophonematically1961
hypophonemically1969
1961 Brno Stud. in Eng. 3 68 What matters..is..the direction and the zonal extent of the monophonematically evaluated ‘gliding diphthong’.
ˌmonophonemaˈticity n. the quality or state of being monophonematic.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > phoneme, allophone, etc. > quality of being
phonemicity1934
monophonematicity1953
1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form iv. 47 The absence of possibility of being on a morph-boundary..may be a criterion of monophonematicity.
1961 F. W. Householder in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics 18/1 The chief metaphysical bones hassled over..concern such points as ‘biuniqueness’, ‘monophonematicity’ [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1940