phonemes

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The researchers also tested traditional linguistic elements such as phonemes and morphemes.

From Science Daily • Jan. 21, 2026

According to Rendell, the evidence shows whales are mainly repeating the same phoneme over and over again instead of actually combining varieties of phonemes into complex words.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2024

People with aphasia may exhibit linguistic errors such as the inversion, substitution, addition or subtraction of phonemes when communicating.

From Scientific American • Oct. 12, 2023

"This system is trained to know what words should come before other ones, and which phonemes make what words," study co-author Dr Frank Willett, Stanford said.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2023

Four Cape York languages had phonemes unusual for Australia, possibly because of the influence of New Guinea languages.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond