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Any speech sound we use when speaking a language is called a ____ . A ____ is a unit of distinctive value, able to distinguish one word or one shape of a word from another in a given language. ____ refer to the different members of a phoneme, sounds which are phonetically different but do not make one word different from another in meaning .