What term refers to the symbol used to represent phonemes in written language?

• A. Grapheme
• B. Phoneme
• C. Morpheme
• D. Allophone

Answer: (A)

Grapheme is the symbol used to represent phonemes in written language. A grapheme can be a single letter or a combination of letters that encodes a sound. For example, the /p/ sound can be written as "p," and the /f/ sound can be written as "f" or "ph" in different words. This is about the written representation, not the sound itself. The sound unit is a phoneme, the smallest unit of sound; a morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning; and an allophone is a contextual variation of a single phoneme.