Phone
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Phone is also a colloquial term for telephone. For the measure of the strength of sound, see Phon. For the movie, see Phone (film). For the suffix, see -phone. For iPhone look at iPhone. For the DJ/Producer, see Phones (DJ)
Within phonetics, a phone is:
- a speech sound or gesture considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language
- a speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties
- a particular occurrence of a speech segment
- the basic unit revealed via phonetic speech analysis
- Phonetic symbology is set off within brackets.
[edit] See also
- Phoneme, a set of phones that are cognitively equivalent (the "same" sound or element of sign)
- Allophone, one phone of the many that constitute a phoneme
- List of phonetics topics
