monophonemicadj.
/ˌmɒnəfəˈniːmɪk/, U.S. /ˌmɑnəˌfoʊˈnimɪk/ Linguistics.
Of or relating to a single phoneme; consisting of a single phoneme.
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diaphonic1932
morphonemic1934
morphophonemic1934
subphonemic1935
microphonemic1936
monophonemic1936
allophonic1938
diaphonemic1939
monophonematic1940
diphonemic1950
idiophonemic1958
morphophonic1962
morphophonematic1964
hypophonemic1966
morphonic1966
1936 Amer. Speech 11 206 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 7 154 A distinction is drawn between monophonemic short-vowel and polyphonemic long-vowel diphthongs.
1989 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 34 220 Their case for the monophonemic character of English [ts] and [dz]..is less than conclusive.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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