How many speech sounds are there in English?
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Sounds of Speech: In Depth. The English alphabet has 26 letters that are used individually in various combinations to represent between 42 and 44 different speech sounds! ... Speech sounds are also called phonemes. A phoneme is defined as the smallest part of spoken language that makes a difference in meaning.
deepthidinesh99:
actually phoneme is the minimal distinctive unit of speech sound. or the smallest unit of speech sound. and it doesn't affect the meaning of the word since its only associated with sound. if the change is with the morpheme or the minimal distinctive unit of meaning it'll affect the meaning of the word.
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