QUESTION17-Phonemes and Morphemes
ANS-It is almost impossible to conceive of a world without language. Although some argue that non-verbal language is just as powerful as verbal language, let's focus for a moment on the latter. All language can be described with phonemes and morphemes. Phonemes are the smallest unites of sounds in any language. Click here to listen to the various English phonemes. In the English language there are about 44 different phonemes. There are many phonemes used around the world that we do not use. My wife, who speaks Spanish, does this really cool rolling R phoneme that sounds sexy but I cannot do to save my life. My Grandma, who spoke Yiddish, can do this funky throat clearing phoneme, that I can only do when I have a bad cold. Some of the phonemes that we use, foreign speakers have difficulty pronouncing, like the sound.
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