Phonetics Vocabulary

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Phonetics Vocabulary

• Phone any sound produced by the vocal tract
• Phoneme a speech sound of a particular language
• Allophone an alternate form or variation of a
  phoneme

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• Graph any letter of a language
• Grapheme a letter of a particular language
• Allograph a variant form (lower case vs. upper
  case letters)

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• Morph the smallest unit of meaning of a
  language
• Morpheme the smallest unit of meaning of a
  particular language
• free morpheme
• bound morpheme
• 3. Allomorph a variant of a morpheme (past
  tense forms regular and irregular)