Process for determining the phonemes of a language, their characteristics, relations, and combinatory rules in the framework of a particular language theory. The proceedings of the Prague School (N.Trubetzkoy, R.Jakobson) are based on the functional...

n. 1. A single speech sound; any one of the minimal units of which an utterance may be regarded as a linear sequence, at either the phonetic or phonological level, such as [a], [s], [k] or [m]. The segment is broadly conceived of as a period of speech...

A result of linguistic analysis that attempts to isolate minimal linguistic units, such as phones, morphs, syllables, from a language or speech...

In linguistics (specifically, phonetics), the term segment may be defined as “any discrete unit that can be identified, either physically or auditorily, in the stream of speech.”[1] By 'discrete', this means units that are separate and...