Phonemes

There are three phonemes in the word "chin": /ch/ /i/ /n/.

Japanese has approximately 15 consonant phonemes and 5 vowel phonemes, totaling around 20 phonemes in total.

The word "window" has four phonemes: /w/ /ɪ/ /n/ /doʊ/.

There are 4 phonemes in "watch": /w/ /ɑ/ /tʃ/ /ʃ/.

There are three phonemes, or speech sounds, in sharp. They are sh / ar / p. In some rhotic accents, where the r is strongly accented, the a and r are two separate phonemes.

There are 6 phonemes in the word "boulder": /b/ /oʊ/ /l/ /d/ /ə/ /r/.

The word "wanted" has five phonemes: /w/, /ɑ/, /n/, /t/, /ɪd/.

German has around 40 phonemes, depending on the regional dialect.

My professor said that the answer is actually 6. Can someone explain, please? Thank you.

Phonemes are minimum units of distinctive sound. That is not the same as individual letters, though a phoneme may happen to correspond to a single letter.

If you say the word 'diskette' aloud, you will notice that you make 6 distinct sounds, which for simplicity I will represent by ordinary letters rather than phonetic symbols: d-i-s-k-e-t. Thus, the first 5 phonemes correspond to single letters, while the final phoneme, the 't' sound, is represented by 3 letters, 'tte'.

Some phonemes that always need more than one letter to be written down (in English) are the 'ch', 'sh' and 'th' sounds.

Some phonemes can be represented in several different ways, using one or more letters. For example, the vowel sound in the word 'meet', a long 'e' sound, can also be spelt 'ea', 'e', and 'ie' in various other words.

No, "st" is not a phoneme. A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that distinguishes one word from another in a language. "St" is a consonant cluster that represents a combination of two phonemes /s/ and /t/ in English.

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Words that differ in meaning due to a difference in a single phoneme are called minimal pairs.

There are six phonemes in the word "umbrella": /ʌ/ /m/ /b/ /r/ /ɛ/ /l/.

Phoneme recognition is the first step performed by speech recognition software. It involves splitting the input voice signal and matching each segment to a known phoneme. See http:/electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/high-tech-gadgets/speech-recognition.htm for more.

Two phonemes: the "sh" and the "e". "Sh" is just one sound, despite being spelled with two letters.

There are 3 phonemes in the word knight...phonemes represent sound so the sounds you hear are n, i, t

The word "trail" has four phonemes: /t/ /r/ /ay/ /l/.

The word "stick" has four phonemes: /s/ /t/ /ɪ/ /k/.

Five - ch / i / m / p / s

Three - th/ough/t

There are three phonemes in the word "book": /b/ /ʊ/ /k/.