An interactive guide to Linguistics for Natural Language Processing

SPEECH

The test and questions that follow are based on the notes and exercises for the 'Phones and Phonemes' topic.

Speech can be considered to be composed of a sequence of distinctive unit sounds known as phonemes. These differ between languages and can be separated by a person who speaks that particular language. Each phoneme corresponds to a cluster of actual unit sounds which native speakers generally do not distinguish. These unit sounds are known as phones.