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Which of the following is the study of speech sounds?
Which of the following is the study of speech sounds?
- Semantics
- Morphology
- Phonetics (correct)
- Syntax
What is the term for the smallest unit of sound that affects meaning in a language?
What is the term for the smallest unit of sound that affects meaning in a language?
- Phoneme (correct)
- Grapheme
- Sememe
- Morpheme
Which of the following refers to the study of the way in which sounds function within a particular language?
Which of the following refers to the study of the way in which sounds function within a particular language?
- Phonology (correct)
- Sociolinguistics
- Pragmatics
- Orthography
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Phonetics and Phonology
- Phonetics is the study of speech sounds.
- Phonology is the term for the study of the way in which sounds function within a particular language.
- The smallest unit of sound that affects meaning in a language is called a phoneme.
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