language unit vs speech sound

language unit and speech sound both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
language unit	Yes	No	No	No
speech sound	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, speech sound is a hyponym of language unit; that is, speech sound is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than language unit:

language unit: one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed
speech sound: (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

Other hyponyms of language unit include discourse, word, syllable, lexeme, morpheme, formative, name, collocation, phone, sound, sign.

language unit (noun)	speech sound (noun)
one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed	(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

language unit vs speech sound

language unit and speech sound both are nouns.

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