dyphone

Example:Although morphemes and dyphones both contribute to linguistic analysis, dyphones are specifically related to minimal sound units of vowels and consonants, whereas morphemes are units of meaning.

Definition:A unit of sound or writing that may be combined with other units to form a word, such as a root or affix. While morphemes are more general than dyphones, they play a similar role in the context of word formation and language analysis.

Example:Phonemes and dyphones are related in that both are units used in linguistic analysis, but phonemes refer more broadly to any sound that contributes to the meaning of a word, not just those dependent on a combination of a vowel and a consonant.

Definition:The smallest unit in the sound system of a language that can distinguish one word from another.