phonemicizev.
/fəˈniːmᵻsʌɪz/, U.S. /foʊˈniməˌsaɪz/, /fəˈniməˌsaɪz/ Linguistics.
1.
a. intransitive. To employ phonemic analysis.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [verb (intransitive)] > classify or describe in terms of phoneme theory
phonemicize1940
1940 Language 16 354 Lorimer made no attempt to phonemicize here.
1951 Language 27 340 We are forced to phonemicize as /patadak/ and /padatak/.
1975 Amer. Speech 1972 47 240 Does ‘phonemically different’ imply ‘different phonemes’? This is a catch-question I put to my students at a certain point as they are learning to ‘phonemicize’.
1989 Language 65 604 It need not..invite the hearer to phonemicize: what we hear is frequently slurred.
b. transitive. To classify, analyse, or describe in terms of phonemes.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [verb (transitive)] > classify or describe in terms of phoneme theory
phonemicize1953
1953 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 19 166 Each long nucleus has been phonemicized as a cluster of two phonemes.
1986 Eng. World-wide 7 27 It is the modern reflex of ME /u:/ that..is phonemicized as /aw/.
2003 Oceanic Linguistics 42 1 It probably reflects the conflicting desires to phonemicize a language, and to orthographicize it.
2.
a. transitive. To advance from allophonic to phonemic status. rare.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [verb (transitive)] > classify or describe in terms of phoneme theory > advance to phonemic status
phonemicize1972
1972 M. L. Samuels Linguistic Evol. iii. 35 The split of one phoneme into two is clearly mechanical in origin: what are at first allophones of a single phoneme are ‘phonemicised’, or attain the status of separate phonemes.
1976 Archivum Linguisticum 7 184 One could postulate..another old series of labials and dentals which changed u to o and which then joined with the other dentals and labials, ‘phonemicizing’ the old allophone.
b. intransitive. To attain phonemic status. rare.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [verb (intransitive)] > classify or describe in terms of phoneme theory > attain phonemic status
phonemicize1973
1973 J. M. Anderson Struct. Aspects Lang. Change 142 The reduction of the labiovelars allowed these fronted allophones to phonemicize.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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