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I’ll wait for you to call Linguistic Unit (7)

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I believe the answer is:

phoneme

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'linguistic unit' is the definition.
(phoneme is a kind of linguistic unit)

'i'll wait for you to call' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'you' could be 'one' (I've seen this before) and 'one' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(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 Sydney Morning Herald.
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