2. A phoneme is a single "unit" of sound
that has meaning in any language.
There are 44 phonemes in English, each
one representing a different sound a
person can make.
PHONEMES
3. different pronunce a phoneme are
called allophones.
They are not phonemes, because they do
not change the meaning of the word.
Allophones often show up when people
have different accents.
4. PHONEME TO GRAPHEME (CONSONANT)
EXAMPLES OF PHONEME
/b/ as in ball /m/ as in mouth /t/ as in tea
/d/ as in dog /n/ as in no /ʧ/ as in cheap
/ʤ/ as in joke /ŋ/ as in thing /k/ as in coffee
/g/ as in good /l/ as in love /f/ as in fat
/v/ as in van /r/ as in right /θ/ as in thin
/ð/ as in that /w/ as in why /s/ as in see
/z/ as in zoo /j/ as in you /ʃ/ as in she
/ʒ/ as in visin /p/ as in pea /h/ as in he
5. PHONEME TO GRAPHEME (VOWEL)
/ɪ/ as in ship
/ʊ/ as in book
/e/ as in egg
/æ/ as in cat
/ʌ/ as in cup
/ɒ/ as in hot
Long vowel
/i:/ as in sheep
/u:/ as in boot
/ɜ:/ as in learn
/ɔ:/ as in door
/ɑ:/ as in car