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- Phone is a colloquial term for telephone.
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.
The word originates from Greek φωνή for sound/voice.
See also
- allophone
- List of phonetics topics
- phon (a measure of sound intensity)cs:Fón