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  CHRONEME Articles In spoken language, a chroneme is a
Use of a chroneme views /a?/ as being composed of two segments /a/ and /?/, whereas in a particular analysis, /a?/ may be a considered a single segment with length one of its features.
This may be compared to the analysis of a diphthong like [ai] as a single segment /ai/ or as the sequence of a consonant and vowel /aj/.
For the purposes of analysis of a chronemic contrast, two words with different meaning that are spoken exactly the same except for length of one segment are considered a minimal pair.
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In spoken language, a chroneme is a basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant.
Use of a chroneme views as being composed of two segments: and, whereas in a particular analysis, may be a considered a single segment with length one of its features.
This may be compared to the analysis of a diphthong like as a single segment or as the sequence of a consonant and vowel:.
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 Chroneme - Qwika
Chroneme In spoken language, a chroneme is a basic, theoretical unit of sound...
One more thought: at least the chroneme deserves its parallel to phoneme more than toneme: that is, since the chroneme could still be treated segmentally, it is...
perspective, this phoneme be analyzed as a chroneme, a consonant exhibited as a lengthening of...
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  Chroneme information - Search.com
For the purposes of analysis of a chronemic contrast, two words with different meaning that are spoken exactly the same except for length of one segment are considered a minimal pair.
American English does not have minimal pairs indicating the existence of chronemes or may theoretically be said to have only one chroneme; Australian English, on the other hand, does.
It is also grammatically important; the third person marker is a chroneme (menee "s/he goes"), and often in the spoken Finnish of the Helsinki area there are grammatical minimal pairs, e.g.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Chroneme
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics; 1/1/1997; P. MATTHEWS; 37 words; ‘chroneme’.
long and short as chronemes distinguishing vowels in some forms of English.
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 Finnish@Everything2.com
All vowels are affected by a chroneme, which is usually called "two phonemic lengths".
Another language with a similar rhythm is Arabic, which also has the free chronemic distinction, and final devoicing, which English-speakers hear and write as word-final h's.
This 'e' is extended by a chroneme to indicate a declination in the third person, thus we get the standard tulee.
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Vowel undersong: Studies of vocalic timbre and chroneme patterning in German lyric poetry (De proprietatibus litterarum) by Robert P Newton (Unknown Binding - 1981)
dura- tion, and the term chroneme to denote a distinctive degree...
quantity belong to the same chroneme, i.e., they are allochrones, since...
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 Phoneme - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Some languages distinguish words made up of the same phonemes (and tonemes) by using different durations of some elements, which are called chronemes.
An important phoneme is the chroneme, a phonemically-relevant extension of the duration a consonant or vowel.
Some languages or dialects such as Finnish or Japanese allow chronemes after both consonants and vowels.
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