monophonemic, a. Linguistics.
(mɒnəʊfəʊˈniːmɪk)
[f. mono- + phonemic a.]
Of or pertaining to a single phoneme; consisting of a single phoneme.
| 1936 Amer. Speech XI. 206 Over against the monophonemic words cited above are to be set the pleiophonemic words made up of two or more phonemes each. 1955 Archivum Linguisticum VII. 154 A distinction is drawn between monophonemic short-vowel and polyphonemic long-vowel diphthongs. 1957 S. Potter Mod. Linguistics ii. 42 The simplest instances of the commutation test are provided by such monophonemic forms as occur in most languages. |