# Phonemics
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While phonetics studies how humans pronounce and perceive sounds.
1. phonemes
- phoneme (set of phones that are semantically indistinguishable in a language)

Phonetics studies the phonemes pronouncable and perceptible to humans, while phonemics studies how phonemes are arranged within specific dialects of that language.


- allophones
- minimal pairs (set of words distinguished by one phoneme)
2. Syllables
3. Morae
4. Stress
5. Feature geometry
6. Tone
7. Intonation