On the Relationship Between Phone and Phoneme
Zeng Xiao-peng · Journal of Henan Polytechnic University · 2010
The phone is the smallest sound unit of speech from the perspective of voice quality.The concept of phoneme is limited within the scope of voice quality;The phone has the form of voice quality of phoneme,besides,it is a part of a phonemic system and has certain social attributes of speech units.The phone does not make sense unless taking the relationship between different phones into consideration.And the allophone still has the nature of phones.A syllable is composed of phoneme and the pitch models,the length of the time and the stress of the tone,besides,it is a part of certain laws of the languages.