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One of the most fundamental dichotomy in linguistics is the phone / phoneme dichotomy:

a phone is any distinct speech sound regardless of whether the exact sound is critical to the meanings of words

a phoneme is a speech sound in a given language that, if swapped with another phoneme, could change one word to another

Phones are absolute and are not specific to any language, but phonemes can be discussed only in reference to specific languages.

 

 

 

 

Speech is intention-encoding sound produced by human vocal tract or its artificial Ersatz.

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