<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>In linguistics, any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number, and different for each language, considered to be the basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented.</li><li>They are arrived at for any given language by determining which differences in sound function to indicate a difference in meaning. For example, in English, the difference in sound and meaning between "pit" and "bit" indicates the existence of different labial phonemes, while the difference in sound between the unaspirated "p" of "spun" and the aspirated "p" of "pun," since it is never the only distinguishing feature between two different words, is not taken as ground for setting up two different "p" phonemes in English.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>