phonemicallyadv.
/fəˈniːmᵻkli/, U.S. /fəˈnimᵻk(ə)li/ With regard to phonemes or phonemic analysis; in terms of phoneme theory.
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phonemically1923
psychophonetically1934
phonematically1945
phonotactically1961
1923 Bull. School Oriental Stud. 2 692 It is rarely used, always short, and probably not phonemically different.
1942 B. Bloch & G. L. Trager Outl. Ling. Anal. iii. 46 If a language has only five vowel phonemes, the best way of representing them phonemically—regardless of their phonetic nature—is by the letters a, e, i, o, u.
1967 C. L. Wrenn Word & Symbol 5 The multifarious and phonemically divergent regional dialects spoken in the Chinese Republic.
1996 Lit. & Ling. Computing 11 197/1 Given that suppletion cases are rare in Basque, phonemically unrelated allomorphs of the same morpheme are included in the lexicon system as separated entries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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