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Within phonetics, a phone is:
a speech sound or gesture considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language
a speech segment that possesses distinct physical or perceptual properties
a particular occurrence of a speech segment
the basic unit revealed via phonetic speech analysis
Phonetic symbology is set off within brackets.
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See also
Phoneme, a set of phones that are cognitively equivalent (the "same" sound or element of sign)
Allophone, one phone of the many that constitute a phoneme
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