Phone
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If you are looking for the communications device, see Telephone
For other uses, see Phone (disambiguation).
Within phonetics, a phone is:
- a sound speech or gesture considered a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language
- a speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties
- the basic unit revealed via phonetic speech analysis
Phonetic symbology is always set off within [square] brackets.
