AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

THINKING AND LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What are phonemes?
A
Two or more words
B
Smallest meaningful units of language
C
Composed of many words (infinite)
D
Basic Sounds of a language
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A phoneme is a speech sound. It’s the smallest unit of sound that distinguishes one word from another. Since sounds cannot be written, we use letters to represent or stand for the sounds. A grapheme is the written representation (a letter or cluster of letters) of one sound.

Detailed explanation-2: -Phonemes are the individual sounds that make up words. Some letters have more than one phoneme (e.g., long and short vowel sounds). Some phonemes can be represented by more than one letter (for example, a /k/ sound can be written with the letter C or the letter K, or even CK).

Detailed explanation-3: -Phonemes. The phonological elements of a language are the basic, distinctive sounds, also called phonemes.

Detailed explanation-4: -A phoneme is a sound or a group of different sounds perceived to have the same function by speakers of the language or dialect in question. An example is the English phoneme /k/, which occurs in words such as cat, kit, scat, skit.

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