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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ar•chi•pho•neme (är′kə fō′nēm, är′kə fō′nēm),USA pronunciation n. [Ling.]- Phoneticsan abstract phonological unit consisting of the distinctive features common to two phonemes that differ only in that one has a distinctive feature lacking in the other. The archiphoneme is said to be realized when in a certain position an otherwise phonemic opposition is neutralized;
thus, in German, while p and b are separate phonemes differing only in the distinctive feature of voicing, in final position the voicing or unvoicing of the labial stop is nondistinctive, and the p- sound of leib "body'' may be called the realization of the archiphoneme. - Phoneticssuch a unit occurring in a position where the contrast between two or more phonemes is neutralized.
- French archiphonème, term first used by R. Jakobson in 1929; see archi-, phoneme
- German Archiphonem or
- 1935–40
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