A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology
n. 1. Any conventional rendering of a piece of speech with a set of symbols or linguistic objects appropriate to some particular level of analysis. For example, the word cats might be represented morphemically as {cat} + (Plural), phonemically as /kæts/ or /kætz/ (depending on one’s view of phonemes), or phonetically as [khæts]. 2.
One of the planes (sense 1) of phonology, that one handling the purely linguistic content of expressions: phonology in the ordinary sense. 3. In some American Structuralist work, the relation which holds between certain linguistic elements: morphemes are represented by morphs and morphophonemes are represented by phonemes. Cf. composition. Sense 3: Hockett (1961).
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