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Ring me for a speech sound (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

phoneme

'a speech sound' is the definition.
(phoneme is a kind of speech sound)

'ring me' is the wordplay.
'ring' becomes 'phone' (synonyms).
'phone'+'me'='PHONEME'

'for' acts as a link.

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

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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