Ko ngā oromotu e noho ana ki ngā taha o tētahi atu oromotu. Hei tauira, ko te tangi o te ‘p’ me te ‘t’ te taiao oro o te ‘a’ i te kupu ‘patu’.
The phonemes or individual units of sound which surround another phoneme. For example the sounds of ‘p’ and ‘t’ are the phonemic environment of ‘a’ in the word ‘patu’.
Ko te taiao oro tētahi peka o roto i te mātai weteoro.
He aha te taiao oro e noho nei te orokati ‘p’ i tēnei kupu?