This is the smallest unit of speech sound that can be used to distinguish one meaningful utterance from another in a given language.
A)Morpheme
B)Percept
C)Phoneme
D)Phone

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A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a language that can be used to distinguish one word from another. For example, the difference between the words 'pat' and 'bat' is the phoneme /p/ and /b/ respectively. Morphemes are units of meaning and can be made up of one or more phonemes. A percept is a unit of perceptual experience and a phone is any distinct speech sound, including allophones (variations of a phoneme that do not change the meaning of a word).

This Is the Smallest Unit of Speech Sound That Can