Psychology / Unit 7 Psych 0748 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Phoneme
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The idea
A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that distinguishes meaning in a language.
In practice
The difference between "pat" and "bat" rests entirely on one phoneme.
Where people slip
Phoneme boundaries differ by language. Sounds distinguished in one are heard as identical in another.
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