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.