The word phone may refer to any speech sound or gesture considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language: an unanalyzed sound of a language (Loos et al. 1997). In contrast
The word phone may refer to any speech sound or gesture considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language: an unanalyzed sound of a language (Loos et al. 1997). In contrast, a phoneme is a set of phones or a set of sound features that are thought of as the same element within the phonology of a particular language (Crysta