AP PSYCHOLOGY

MOTIVATION EMOTION AND STRESS

MOTIVATION AND EMOTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A phoneme is:
A
an individual sound that is the basic structural element of language.
B
The smallest unit of meaning in a given language.
C
A set of rules established to understand the english language.
D
The study of meaning in language.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Phonemes. A phoneme is the basic unit of phonology. It is the smallest unit of sound that may cause a change of meaning within a language, but that doesn’t have meaning by itself.

Detailed explanation-2: -A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound. A phoneme is the smallest unit of spoken sound and is often the one thing that distinguishes one word from another. For example, cat and rat are only differentiated by the first phoneme.

Detailed explanation-3: -Phonemes are not the basic units of speech. Phonemes are categories of sounds abstracted from the speech of people in a given community that change the meaning of utterances. They are not separate sounds which are combined together to form speech.

Detailed explanation-4: -The phonemic system of a language is a set of linguistic units which forms the basis for higher levels of language structure. Knowledge of the system develops in the child during the language-learning period and is normally accompanied by development of the capacity for differentiating articulations.

Detailed explanation-5: -In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme (/ˈfoʊniːm/) is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language.

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