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Example sentences for: phoneme

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Spanish lacks the phoneme i as in sit for which the Hispanic ear and tongue tend to substitute the i of Francine .
Winkler discovered that the first element of binomials, whether nonsense or not, often begins with a laryngeal or velar phoneme which is formed in the back of the mouth (i.e.
Typical Canadian pronunciation is found in Quebec English, such as raising--actually incomplete shifting--of the /au/ phoneme, and the Briticisms been /bin/, tourniquet / `t\?\rnike/, and again /\?\gen.
' The e stands for the phoneme /e/, which in this word is pronounced like the e in ebb in all varieties of Yiddish.
And although in some Mexican dialects the English sh sound has replaced ch , in standard Spanish the phoneme closest to English sh is the affricate ch, which therefore tends to replace sh in the perception of Hispanophones.