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Record 1 2003-06-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phonetics
  • Language (General)
DEF

Those articulatory and/or acoustic aspects that serve to distinguish one phoneme from another.

CONT

Substitution may not be of one phonemic unit for another but rather simply a switch of one distinctive feature of some phonemic unit, the result being the appearance of some other phonemic unit that differs from the original by that one feature.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phonétique
  • Linguistique (Généralités)
DEF

Caractéristique acoustique ou articulatoire qui permet de distinguer un phonème d'un autre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fonética
  • Lingüística (Generalidades)
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