Definition of chroneme. Meaning of chroneme. Synonyms of chroneme

- in linguistics, a chroneme is a basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant.
- often the chroneme , or the 'longness', acts like a consonant, and may have arisen from one etymologically, such as in australian english
- a particular language , which differ in only one phonological element, such as a phoneme , toneme or chroneme and have distinct meanings.
- in the description of some languages, the term chroneme has been used to indicate contrastive length or duration of phonemes.
- without the historical perspective mentioned above, this phoneme is analyzed as a chroneme , a consonant exhibited as a lengthening of
- however, long vowels may be analyzed as a vowel followed by a chroneme , or also, that sequences of identical vowels are pronounced as '
- chroneme phoneme see also : contrast
- see also: chroneme compensatory lengthening dreimorengesetz on (japanese prosody) pitch accent syllable notes : references : first john , last
- see also : chroneme extra-short references: first yallop collin, fletcher janet , last clark john , year 2007 , title introduction to phonetics
- phenomenon seen in some dialects is the assimilation of the final -a into a preceding vowel, thus making the chroneme the partitive marker.
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