Phone

: Phone is also a colloquial term for telephone. Phon is a measure of sound intensity.

Related Topics:
Telephone - Phon

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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 occurrence 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.

Related Topics:
Phonetics - Phonology - Semantics - Language - Phoneme

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The word originates from Greek φωνή for sound/voice.

Related Topics:
Greek - Sound - Voice

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