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phonemization

phonemization noun: the process of making or becoming phonemic.

Noun

phonemization (countable and uncountable, plural phonemizations)

  1. The process of making or becoming phonemic.
    • Walter Daelemans, Antal van den Bosch. 4.1. Phonemization. We take phonemization to be the mapping of the orthography of unseen words to their pronunciation […]2005 September 1, Walter Daelemans, Antal van den Bosch, Memory-Based Language Processing, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 59
    • Phonemization of allophones of the same phoneme is a frequent phenomenon in language development and is widely commented on in linguistics. It is clear that the phonetic prerequisite for the phonemization of this kind lies in the[…]2006, Albertas Steponavičius, Diachronic Linguistics and Etymology

Forms of phonemization

pluralphonemizations

Questions about phonemization

What does phonemization mean?
Phonemization means the process of making or becoming phonemic.
What part of speech is phonemization?
Phonemization is a noun.
What is the plural of phonemization?
The plural of phonemization is phonemizations.

Words near phonemization in the dictionary

  1. phonemisations
  2. phonemise
  3. phonemised
  4. phonemises
  5. phonemising
  6. phonemization
  7. phonemizations
  8. phonemize
  9. phonemized
  10. phonemizes
  11. phonemizing

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