phonemics

n. the branch of linguistics concerned with the classification and analysis of the phonemes in a language. Whereas phonetics tries to characterize all possible sounds represented in human language, phonemics identifies which of the phonetic distinctions are considered meaningful within a given language. See emic–etic distinction.

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