Phone
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- Phone is a common term for telephone.
For other uses, see Phone (disambiguation).
Within phonetics, a phone is:
- a speech sound or gesture considered a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language
- a speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties
- the basic unit revealed via phonetic speech analysis
Phonetic symbology is always set off within [square] 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
