Phone

Of utterance, language unit and phonetics.   May also be referred to as sound and speech sound.

(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language.

This concept's ID is @1~37995

Contains

  • consonant 12 facts

    A speech sound that is not a vowel.

  • vowel 4 facts

    A speech sound made with the vocal tract open.

  • phoneme 1 facts

    (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers...

  • glide 1 facts

    A vowellike sound that serves as a consonant.

  • sonant 0 facts

    A speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords.

  • orinasal phone 0 facts

    A speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal...