Chroneme
Chroneme In spoken language, a chroneme is a basic, theoretical unit of sound ... of a vowel or consonant. The noun chroneme is derived from Greek χρονος (chronos, time ... may theoretically said to have only one chroneme; Australian English, on the other hand, does ... Hungarian and Estonian have a distinctive moraic chroneme as a phoneme (also arguably called ...
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Talk:Chroneme
Talk:Chroneme What does "long", "half-long", "short" and ... out. One more thought: at least the chroneme deserves its parallel to phoneme more than toneme: that is, since the chroneme could still be treated segmentally, it is ...
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Talk:Phoneme
... spoonerism, where a phoneme moves, but the chroneme does not. Addition: the partitive marker in Helsinki Finnish is often a chroneme. Ei suomee, vaan stadii. --Vuo 00:49 ... is a toneme, there should be a chroneme (I have even seen a few references ... by one criteria for determining 'phoneme' status, chroneme might better qualify than toneme because the ... to one segment or syllable, while a chroneme seems more locked into one or ...
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Consonant gradation
... tt → t p → *β (v, chroneme) t → *θ (d, s, chroneme; note: 'd' is realized differently in each ... Finnish phonology) k → *γ (disappearance, j, chroneme) The complete list may be seen here ... perspective, this phoneme be analyzed as a chroneme, a consonant exhibited as a lengthening of ...
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Vowel length
... duration of a vowel sound. Often the chroneme, or the "longness", acts like a consonant ... cases, it is caused by a following chroneme, which is etymologically a consonant, e.g ... example, consider spoken Finnish suurii < suuria: the chroneme is the only marker for the partitive ...
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Minimal pair
... differ in only one phoneme, toneme or chroneme and have a distinct meaning. They are ... A differentiator for length is called a chroneme. Note that IPA allows length to be ...
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Chronem   (translated from German)
... of words. In German there are two Chroneme, the shortness and the length Vocal one ...
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Length (phonetics)
... rather of the whole syllable. See also Chroneme.
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Category:Phonology
... Allophone Allophonic rule Antepenult Autosegmental phonology C Chroneme Compensatory lengthening Complementary distribution Consonant cluster Consonant ...
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Finnish language
... e are neutral. One phoneme is the chroneme, such that Finnish appears to have long ...
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