In actual speech, a phoneme is realized phonetically as a certain phone.
在實際會話中, 音位總是以某個音素的形式得以體現(xiàn)出來.
?? 牛津釋義
phoneme
n
(linguistics 語言) any one of the set of smallest distinctive speech sounds in a language that distinguish one word from another 音位; 音素
English has 24 consonant phonemes. 英語有24個輔音音素.
In English, the `s' in `sip' and the `z' in `zip' represent two different phonemes. 英語中sip中的s和zip中的z為兩個不同的音素.