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What is a Phone | Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Phone

Definition: 

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.

Examples: 

See Also:

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

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.

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