äänneanalyysiä
Äänneanalyysiä, known in English as phonemic analysis or phoneme inventory analysis, is a crucial process in linguistics, particularly in phonetics and phonology. It involves identifying and cataloging the distinct sound units, or phonemes, that make up a language. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that can differentiate meaning in a word. For example, the difference between the English words "pat" and "bat" is due to the initial phonemes /p/ and /b/, respectively.
The process of äänneanalyysiä typically begins with collecting a corpus of spoken language from native speakers.
The outcome of äänneanalyysiä is a phonemic inventory, a list of all the phonemes present in a