microphoneme Linguistics.
(ˌmaɪkrəʊˈfəʊniːm)
[f. micro- 1 + phoneme.]
(See quot. 1935.) Hence microphoˈnemic a.
| 1935 W. F. Twaddell in Lang. Monogr. XVI. v. 39 A term of an ordered class of minimum phonological differences among forms is a microphoneme. 1936 Language XII. 56 If one restricted one's attention to the series kill: till: pill: hill, one could arrive at alternative microphonemic classes. 1953 Trans. Philol. Soc. 84 All that we have..are..certain microphonemes and greater or lesser sets of microphonemes. |