Glossary term P

Phone

A phone is an unanalyzed sound of a language. It is the smallest identifiable unit found in a stream of speech that is able to be transcribed with an IPA symbol.

See Also:

  • What is a phone chart?
  • Comparison of morpheme-morph-allomorph and phoneme-phone-allophone

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