<?xml version="1.0" encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">
<wml>
<card id="card1" title="English phonology - Page 4 - Wikipedia">
<p>
<a accesskey="1" href="page.php?w=English_phonology&amp;p=3">1.Previous</a><br />
<a accesskey="3" href="page.php?w=English_phonology&amp;p=5">3.Next</a>
</p>
<p>regional dialects. Descriptions of standard reference accents provide only a limited guide to the phonology of other dialects of English.</p>

<p><big>Phonemes</big></p>
<p>A <a href="page.php?w=phoneme">phoneme</a> of a language or dialect is an <a href="page.php?w=abstraction">abstraction</a> of a <a href="page.php?w=speech_sound">speech sound</a> or of a group of different sounds that are all perceived to have the same function by speakers of that particular language or dialect. For example, the English word through consists of three phonemes: the</p><p>
<a accesskey="1" href="page.php?w=English_phonology&amp;p=3">1.Previous</a><br />
<a accesskey="3" href="page.php?w=English_phonology&amp;p=5">3.Next</a>
</p>

<do type="prev" label="Search">
        <go href="search.wml"/>
</do>

</card>
</wml>
