Talk:Phone

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Isn't this a Phoneme?

No, a phoneme is a set of phones that carry the same meaning. Such phones are called allophones. --Damian Yerrick

[edit] Bad English

In phonetics and phonology, a phone is a speech sound considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the sound system semantics of a language. A sound segment that possess distinct acoustic properties. A particular occurance of a speech sound segment. The basic sound unit revealed via phonetic speech analysis. Phonetic symbology is enclosed within square ([]) brackets. Compare with phoneme, a set of phones that carry the same meaning.

This topic is presumably of interest to linguists, and yet the above short paragraph contains a whole succession of sentences without main verbs, a spelling error ("occurance"), and a verb which doesn't agree with its subject ("segment that possess"). I would fix it, but I don't know whether these disjointed definitions are supposed to be alternatives or whether they all apply.

Main Page 17:19, 7 September 2005 (UTC)