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Phonology: The Organization of Speech Sounds in Language
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What is the smallest unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a language?
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Phoneme
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A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a language. For example, the words "cat" and "cot" are distinguished by the phonemes /k/ and /t/, respectively.