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Linguistic unit

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I believe the answer is:

phoneme

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

This is the entire clue.

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

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.
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