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phone

vr.tr.phone · INF.MED

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

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Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent handle phones as units of phonetics with IPA transcription and articulatory description, distinct from phonemes and from telephones.

In phonetics, an individual speech sound as physically produced, regardless of whether it distinguishes meaning (a phoneme) in a language; realisations of a phoneme are allophones.

What it is for: Describing and transcribing speech sounds.

It can be transcribe it in IPA; describe its articulation; analyse it acoustically; relate it to phonemes.

Distinguishing features

A physical speech sound

Not necessarily a phoneme

Allophones are variants of phonemes

The telephone is a different sense

What it looks like

Heard as a sound; written in square brackets in IPA, such as [t].

How it is recognised

IPA symbols in square brackets

Spectrograms

Phonemes are written in slashes

Related models

realises - phonology

phoneme

is studied by - phonetics

linguistics

is confused with - a homonym

telephone

is transcribed in - notation

IPA

In practice

Families and kinds

consonants and vowels

allophones

suprasegmental features

Identifiers

IPA symbol Unicode IPA character transcription

Standards and regulation

International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

Failure modes and hazards

Confusing phones and phonemes

Inconsistent transcription

Analytical facets

substance
information
origin
conceptual
agency
inert
mobility
not-applicable
scale
not-applicable
affordances
readable

Also called

speech soundsoundphonemeallophoneablautgradegradationdiphthongvowelvowel soundschwashwamurmur vowelmurmurstem vowelthematic vowelsemivowelglidepalatalconsonantalveolar consonantdental consonantalveolardentalobstruentstop consonantstopocclusiveplosive consonantplosive speech soundplosiveaspiratelabial consonantlabiallabiodental consonantlabiodentalbilabiallabial stopglottal stopglottal plosive

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Where this came from

oewn:2024 · CC BY 4.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Description Which sound.

Articulation defines the phone.

Articulation

Place and manner.

Articulation

Articulatory description.

  1. What are its place and manner of articulation? definition
  2. Is it voiced? definition

Symbol

IPA.

Symbol

IPA symbol.

  1. Which IPA symbol represents it? definition
  2. Which diacritics? definition
Phonology Relation to phonemes.

Phones realise phonemes.

Phoneme

Which phoneme.

Phoneme

Phoneme realised.

  1. Which phoneme does it realise in this language? definition
  2. Is it an allophone? boundary

Contrast

Meaningful differences.

Contrast

Contrastiveness.

  1. Does it contrast meaning in this language? boundary
  2. With which other sound? definition
Acoustics Physical sound.

Acoustics measure phones.

Measures

Formants and duration.

Acoustics

Acoustic measures.

  1. What are its acoustic properties? measurement
  2. How were they measured? provenance

Variation

Speakers and contexts.

Variation

Variation.

  1. How does it vary by speaker and context? measurement
  2. Which dialects differ? definition
Transcription Writing speech.

Consistency matters.

Narrow and broad

Detail level.

Transcription

Transcription level.

  1. Is the transcription narrow or broad? definition
  2. Which conventions are followed? provenance

Tools

Speech technology.

Tools

Speech tools.

  1. How do speech recognisers handle this phone? measurement
  2. Where do they fail? boundary

What the second pass must settle

  • Should phones be linked to phoneme inventories per language?
  • How should transcription conventions be recorded?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases such as ablaut; should they be split off?