What are phonemes?

What are phonemes? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of phoneme
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The difficulty of this contrast is that the phonemes included were phonologically similar, though contrastive.
A total of 15 items were included on this task requiring students to delete initial, medial, and final phonemes from words.
But then, little by little, the words become only sounds, a random collection of glottals and fricatives, a storm of whirling phonemes.
If there were minimal pairs, we would have to conclude that voiced and voiceless sonorants are separate phonemes.
They can distinguish between any two sounds which represent distinct phonemes in any of the world's languages.
Once the phonemes have been assembled and synthesized, they can be used to produce speech output.

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