linguistics, a chroneme is a basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant. The noun chroneme is derived...

differ in only one phonological element, such as a phoneme, toneme or chroneme, and have distinct meanings. They are used to demonstrate that two phones...

the conjoined consonants rt render the normally light ka syllable heavy. Chroneme Compensatory lengthening Dreimorengesetz On (Japanese prosody) Pitch accent...

consonant gradation: haka → haan. In some cases, it is caused by a following chroneme, which is etymologically a consonant: jää "ice" ← Proto-Uralic *jäŋe. In...

are much more restricted; Japanese, for example, only allows /ɴ/ and a chroneme in a coda, and theoretically has no consonant clusters at all, as the onset...

common. Affricates may also have phonemic length, that is, affected by a chroneme, as in Italian and Karelian. In phonology, affricates tend to behave similarly...

feature of a specific sound segment, but rather of the whole syllable. Chroneme Extra-short Colon (letter) Clark John, Yallop Collin, Fletcher Janet (2007)...

acoustic term 'sibilant'. In the description of some languages, the term chroneme has been used to indicate contrastive length or duration of phonemes. In...

the assimilation of the final -a into a preceding vowel, thus making the chroneme the partitive marker. For example, suurii → suuria "some big --". In Estonian...

speech processing, speech recognition, and computer facial animation. Seme Chroneme Chen, T. and Rao R. R. (1998, May). "Audio-visual integration in multi-modal...