Discussion
...............is the smallest meaningful unit of language.
Answer: B
The smallest meaningful unit of language is the morpheme.
A morpheme cannot be divided into smaller parts that carry meaning. The word 'unhappiness', for example, has three morphemes: un- (not), happy and -ness (state). Some morphemes are free words (happy), others are bound affixes (un-, -ness, the plural -s).
The phoneme is the smallest unit of sound that distinguishes meaning, but it has no meaning of its own: /p/ and /b/ separate 'pat' from 'bat'. Phrases and sentences are larger units built from words.
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