I need a frequency list of phonemes in English.?

Question

No, not a frequency list of letters, but of _phonemes_: the schwa sound, the /sh/ sound, the /ch/ sound, and all the different vowel sounds, etc. There are between 40 and 45 of these in English. Do we have a linguist in the house?

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Answer 1

Here are the results of one such effort (sorry about the spacing -- look at the actual web page chart to see it all more clearly).

The 40 sounds of English (USA accent) with percentage
each phoneme was found in truespel dictionary (note that the "sound" listed for each is according to truespel's own method, rather than the IPA, so some might wish to convert it to the latter).

ID sound % Sample words
[VOWELS]
v1 i 9.9% sit
v2 ee 5.0% see
v3 er 3.4% her
v4 u 3.3% up
v5 e 2.6% beg
v6 a 2.1% bad
v7 ae 2.1% sundae
v8 aa 1.9% aardvark,Saab
v9 ie 1.4% pie
v10 oe 1.4% toe
v11 oo 1.2% good
v12 ue 1.2% blue
v13 or 0.7% or
v14 au 0.4% auger
v15 air 0.4% fair
v16 ou 0.4% out
v17 oi 0.1% toil

[CONSONANTS]
k1 n,nn 7.8% in
k2 s,ss 6.8% sin
k3 t,tt 6.8% tip
k4 l,ll 5.4% lift
k5 k,kk 4.1% kid
k6 d,dd 4.0% did
k7 r,rr 3.9% rat
k8 z,zz 3.7% zap
k9 p,pp 3.3% pub
k10 m,mm 3.0% mist
k11 g,gg 2.6% good
k12 b,bb 1.7% bad
k13 f,ff 1.7% fair
k14 y,yy 1.6% yet
k15 sh,ssh 1.2% wish
k16 v,vv 1.2% van
k17 w,ww 1.2% wag
k18 j,jj 0.8% just
k19 h,hh 0.7% hat
k20 ch,cch 0.5% chin
k21 thh,tthh 0.3% thin
k22 th,tth 0.1% that
k23 zh,zzh 0.1% vision
http://www.foreignword.com/dictionary/truespel/transpel.htm


For a sample "Truespel Analysis of USA English phoneme usage from words in the London Times Newspaper" (with very similar results) see:
http://www.nifl.gov/nifl-assessment/2002/0093.html

(This example also includes a re-ordered list combining the consonant and vowel sounds into one list.)

Answer 2

List Of Phonemes

Answer 3

a million. have confidence 2. communique (had to function this with the aid of fact that is substantial to me) 3. appreciate 4. Romance 5. staying power 6. Sharing 7. Humor 8. excitement 9. Tenderness 10. Compatibility

Answer 4

This may be what you are looking for:

http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~bkessler/SyllStructDistPhon/CVC.html

Answer 5

http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/tutordemos/SpectrogramReading/phoneme.html

Answer 6

I hope this helps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_orthography

Answer 7

don't know.! heh heh