Talk:Phone (phonetics)
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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
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- 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.