PHONE

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.

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See also

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