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consonant.noun
a speech sound produced by a partial or complete obstruction of the air stream by any of various constrictions of the speech organs; a letter or character representing such a speech sound

definite article.noun
a member of the class of determiners that restrict or particularize a noun. In English, 'the' is the definite article

diphthong.noun
Linguistics – a complex speech sound or glide that begins with one vowel and gradually changes to another vowel within the same syllable, as (oi) in boil or in fine
diphthongal.adjective

interjection
a sudden, short utterance; an ejaculation; a part of speech usually expressing emotion and capable of standing alone, such as Ugh! or Wow!
interjectional.adjective
interjectionally.adverb

morpheme.noun
Linguistics – a meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a word, such as man, or a word element, such as -ed in walked, that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts
morphemic.adjective
morphemically.adverb

phonetic.adjective
Linguistics – of or relating to phonetics; representing the sounds of speech with a set of distinct symbols, each designating a single sound (phonetic spelling); of, relating to, or being features of pronunciation that are not phonemically distinctive in a language, as aspiration of consonants or vowel length in English
phonetical.adjective
phonetically.adverb
phonemic.adjective
Linguistics – of or relating to phonemes; of or relating to phonemics; serving to distinguish phonemes or distinctive features
phonemically.adverb
phonemics.noun
Linguistics – the study and establishment of the phonemes of a language phonemicist.noun
phoneme.noun
Linguistics – the smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning, as the m of mat and the b of bat in English

phonetics.noun
Linguistics – the branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols; the system of sounds of a particular language

syllabic.adjective
Linguistics.-.of, relating to, or consisting of a syllable or syllables; designating a consonant that forms a syllable without a vowel, such as the (i) in the word riddle; pronounced with every syllable distinct; of or being a form of verse based on the number of syllables in a line rather than on the arrangement of accents or quantities
syllabic.noun
Linguistics.-.a syllabic sound
syllabically.adverb

syllable.noun
Linguistics – a unit of spoken language consisting of a single uninterrupted sound formed by a vowel, diphthong, or syllabic consonant alone, or by any of these sounds preceded, followed, or surrounded by one or more consonants; one or more letters or phonetic symbols written or printed to approximate a spoken syllable
syllable, syllabled, syllabling, syllables.transitive verbs
Linguistics – to pronounce in syllables

vowel.noun
a letter, such as a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y in the English alphabet, that represents a vowel
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