phonemicsn.
/fəˈniːmɪks/, U.S. /foʊˈnimɪks/, /fəˈnimɪks/ Linguistics.
The study of phonemes and phoneme systems; phonemic analysis. Also: the phoneme system of a particular language.
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tonology1874
accentology1881
acoustic phonetics1914
tonetics1921
phonology1924
morphonology1933
morphophonology1934
phonemics1934
psychophonetics1934
phonematics1936
physiophonetics1936
speech physiology1936
morphophonemics1938
kenematics1939
phonematology1949
speech recognition1953
phonotactics1956
paralinguistics1958
morphophonics1962
Trageremics1963
phonematics1964
kenetics1969
1934 Language 10 125 Even in the problem of phonemics itself, orthography is a valuable technique.
1940 Language 16 247 In English we have the incomparably superior term phonemics, which leaves us free to use phonology in its old and widely established usage as a general term for all the phenomena concerned with the production and use of sounds.
1949 G. L. Trager Field of Linguistics 5 The description of the phonemes of a language, and of their occurrence and arrangement, is the phonemics of that language.
1964 N. Chomsky Current Issues in Ling. Theory 75 Let us coin the term ‘taxonomic phonemics’ to refer to this body of doctrine.
1991 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 36 391 Bubenik's point is that phonemics and graphemics are autonomous systems, and that the first must be reconstructed before we can understand the evidence furnished by the second.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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