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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

relation go
an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together

part, portion, component, constituent, component part go
something determined in relation to something that includes it

language unit, linguistic unit go
one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed

phone, sound, speech sound
(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

noun.communication

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phoneme go
(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
vowel, vowel sound go
a speech sound made with the vocal tract open
glide, semivowel go
a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant
consonant go
a speech sound that is not a vowel
orinasal phone, orinasal go
a speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels)
sonant, voiced sound go
a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords