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

vowel, vowel sound
a speech sound made with the vocal tract open

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4 Subcategories

ablaut go
a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song)
diphthong go
a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another
schwa, shwa go
a neutral middle vowel
stem vowel, thematic vowel go
a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection