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What is the difference between phonetic variation and phonemic variation? Can you give some examples?
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- Doctor PLv 75 years ago
phonemic
adjective linguistics
1. of or relating to the phoneme
2. relating to or denoting speech sounds that belong to different phonemes rather than being allophonic variants of the same phoneme.
3. of or relating to phonemics
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Compare phonetic (sense 2)
- d_r_sivaLv 75 years ago
phonetic
Relating to speech sounds:
detailed phonetic information
(Of a system of writing) having a direct correspondence between symbols and sounds:
a phonetic alphabet
More example sentences
1.2Relating to phonetics:
the teachers should receive phonetic training
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/am...
phoneme
Phonetics
Any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another, for example p, b, d, and t in the English words pad, pat, bad, and bat. Compare with allophone1.
