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Re: Phonetic and phonematic

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Monday, June 25, 2001, 23:27
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>Well, as for my stupid question: shall we say "phonemic" or "phonematic"?
I've
>always wondered which one was the correct word.>
US Linguistic usage says "phonemic"; "phonematic" may be a European/Romance? form, viewing /fonem-/ as if it were a real Greek word in -ma, like "drama, dramatic" or "problem, problematic".

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Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>