Multiple choice

Which of the following is the smallest contrastive linguistic unit, which may bring about a change of meaning?

  1. Lemma

  2. Lexeme

  3. Word stem

  4. Morpheme

  5. Phoneme
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Explanation

A phoneme is a basic unit of a language's phonology, which is combined with other phonemes to form meaningful units such as words or morphemes. The phoneme can be described as the smallest contrastive linguistic unit which may bring about a change of meaning.

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