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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=phonetics">phonetics</a> (a branch of <a href="page.php?w=linguistics">linguistics</a>), a <b>phone</b> is any distinct <a href="page.php?w=speech">speech</a> sound. It is any surface-level or unanalyzed sound of a language, the smallest identifiable unit occurring inside a stream of speech. In spoken human language, a phone is thus any <a href="page.php?w=vowel">vowel</a> or <a href="page.php?w=consonant">consonant</a> sound. In <a href="page.php?w=sign_language">sign languages</a>, a phone is the equivalent of a unit</p><p>
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