The smallest meaningful unit in language is called a:
A) phone
B) phoneme
C) morpheme
D) phrase

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A morpheme is the smallest unit in language that carries meaning. It can be a root word or a prefix/suffix added to a root word. Phones are the individual sounds that make up spoken language, phonemes are the smallest units of sound that can change the meaning of a word, and a phrase is a group of words that function as a single unit in a sentence.

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