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PHONEME [2 records]

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Record 1 - external organization data 2014-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Vocabulary
Universal entry(ies)
29.01.17 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

smallest recognizable unit of speech in a given natural language

OBS

phoneme: term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO/IEC 2382-29:1999].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - ISO/CEI JTC 1 Vocabulaire des technologies de l'information
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
29.01.17 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

plus petite unité distinctive de la parole dans une langue donnée

OBS

phonème : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO/CEI [ISO/IEC 2382-29:1999].

Spanish

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Record 2 1996-06-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phonetics
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A minimal unit of distinctive sound feature. (Pei, M., Glossary of Linguistic Terminology. New-York; Columbia University Press, 1976, p. 200)

CONT

In terms of the phoneme theory and by means of phonemic analysis, languages can be shown to organize the selection they make of the available sound differences in human speech into a limited number of recurrent distinctive units called phonemes. (Pei, M., Invitation to Linguistics. New-York; Doubleday and company inc., 1965, p. 128)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phonétique
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Plus petite unité distinctive de la parole dans une langue donnée. (ISO/CEI, 2382-29, 1996).

DEF

Unité distincte minimale au niveau segmental. C'est-à-dire: plus petit segment phonique (dépourvu de sens) permettant, seul ou en combinaison avec d'autres phonèmes, de constituer des signifiants et de les distinguer entre eux. (Galison, R. et D. Coste, Dictionnaire de Didactique des Langues. Paris; Hachette, 1976, p. 415)

CONT

Ces unités minimales, qui ont une forme phonique mais pas de signifié, sont des unités minimales de la deuxième articulation du langage, ou unités minimales distinctives successives: les phonèmes. (Mounin, G., Clefs pour la linguistique. Paris; Seghers, 1971, p. 57)

Spanish

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