A characteristic that distinguishes each phoneme from every other is called a(n):
A) distinctive feature
B) morpheme
C) phone
D) inflection

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A distinctive feature is a characteristic that distinguishes one phoneme from another, such as voicing or place of articulation. Morphemes are the smallest unit of meaning in language, phones are individual speech sounds, and inflections are changes in word form to indicate tense, number, etc.

A Characteristic That Distinguishes Each Phoneme from Every Other Is