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Phonemes and Allophones: The Basic Units of Phonology
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What is a phoneme?
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A unit of sound that distinguishes one word from another in a language.
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A phoneme is a unit of sound that distinguishes one word from another in a language. For example, in English, the words "cat" and "cot" are distinguished by the phonemes /k/ and /t/, respectively.