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Distinctive sound coming from pub, I note (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

phoneme

'distinctive sound' is the definition.
(a phoneme is a speech sound)

'pub i note' is the wordplay.
'pub' becomes 'ph' (public house).
'i' becomes 'one' (Roman numeral for one).
'note' becomes 'me' (musical note as in do-re-me).
'ph'+'one'+'me'='PHONEME'

'coming from' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for phoneme that I've seen before include "Unit of spoken sound" , "Small bit of speech" , "distinctive sound" , "minimal piece of speech" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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