A speech sound; the smallest unit of sound in speech that can be distinguished from any other such unit. Also: = allophone, n.1

Linguistics. A unit of sound in a language that cannot be analysed into smaller linear units and that can distinguish one word from another…

Either of two or more phonemes which are in free variation in particular words or in particular circumstances. Also: (in H. E. Palmer's terminology)…

All the different forms of a phoneme that collectively occur in all the dialects of a language (see quot. 1932).

One of two or more sounds used interchangeably by the same speaker in the same phonetic context.

= morphophoneme, n.

In morphophonological representation: a unit of sound from which all variants of a morpheme can be derived or predicted by rule.

W. F. Twaddell's term for: any member of a set of terms exhibiting minimum phonological difference in form.

a phoneme whose contrastiveness lies in its distinctive degree of stress.

A phonological unit comprising the totality of distinguishable features common to two or more phonemes.

Each of the different phonetic realizations of a phoneme.

The collective dialectal variants of a phoneme; = diaphone, n.2

A prosodic feature with phonemic status (as pitch, stress, etc.); a suprasegmental phoneme.

(See quot. 1966.) Cf. empty word n. at empty, adj. n.compounds 2.

a phoneme in individual speech.

In stratificational grammar: = morphophoneme, n.

(in the terminology of stratificational grammar) a phonological unit (see quots.).

A phonological unit representing the class of phonemes occurring in dialectally different pronunciations of morphemes.