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The 67 pages that link to Phoneme, each with the reason it gives.

• Sound changeRelated: Historical changes may create, merge, or redistribute phonemic contrasts.

• OrthographyRelated: Some orthographies represent phonemes consistently; others preserve historical or grammatical distinctions.

• Writing systemRelated: Alphabetic systems commonly assign graphemes to phonemes.

• Ferdinand de SaussureRelated: Saussure treated sound differences as relational units within a language system.

• Speech recognitionRelated: Many systems map audio to phonemes or related subword units before forming words.

• Latin alphabetRelated: Latin letters were used to represent sound distinctions, but their sound values vary by language.

• AlphabetRelated: Alphabetic signs represent phonemes, though spelling does not always match pronunciation one-to-one.

• AbugidaRelated: Abugidas encode consonant and vowel phonemes through linked graphic components.

• RhymeRelated: Phonemes help explain why spelling similarity alone does not make two words rhyme.

• Tonal languageRelated: A tone contrast can function phonemically, just like a consonant contrast.

• DiacriticRelated: In many alphabets, a diacritic signals a pronunciation difference that distinguishes phonemes.

• NeogrammariansRelated: Later phonological analysis clarified the sound units to which historical laws apply.

• Phonetic transcriptionRelated: Phonemes are the central units represented in broad, language-focused transcription.

• Indo-European ablautRelated: Reconstructed ablaut grades describe vowel contrasts within Proto-Indo-European forms.

• Leonard BloomfieldRelated: Bloomfield’s analyses treated phonemes as units identified by their distribution and contrasts.

• DiphthongRelated: A diphthong can function as one phoneme despite its changing articulation.

• MorphophonologyRelated: Alternations may change a morpheme's phoneme while preserving its identity.

• Nikolai TrubetzkoyRelated: His theory treats phonemes as units defined by their role in a sound system.

• Word (linguistics)Related: Spoken words are built from sound patterns organized by phonemes.

• McGurk effectRelated: The effect changes the perceived phoneme despite an unchanged auditory syllable.

• PronunciationRelated: Pronunciation choices can change which phonemes listeners perceive.

• Phonological developmentRelated: Learning phonemes lets children distinguish words that differ by a single sound.