The Smallest Unit of Speech That Distinguishes One Utterance from Another

question 16

Multiple Choice

The smallest unit of speech that distinguishes one utterance from another is called a

• A)​morpheme.
• B)​symbol.
• C)​syntax unit.
• D)​phoneme.

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