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In most cases, the sound and the phoneme are one and the same (the phoneme is always made the same way), but there can be variations (a phoneme can turn into two or several sounds).<\/p>\n<p>For example in English, there\u2019s a difference between a short [i] and a long [i:] to make up different words such as \u201c<strong>sick<\/strong>\u201d and \u201c<strong>seek<\/strong>\u201d. This difference is sufficient to distinguish two words or morphemes, so we can say that there are two distinct phonemes. Because the length of vowels isn\u2019t very distinctive in French, there won\u2019t be two different words because of the length of a vowel: in the word mine, the length of the vowel [i] has no importance, there will never be two different words. 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