alleryStart learning →What is the smallest sound unit that can change a word's meaning?
ALexeme
BPhoneme
CSyllable
DMorpheme
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Phoneme
A phoneme is the smallest sound unit that separates words, such as b and p in bat and pat.
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