Phonetics Definition

fə-nĕtĭks
noun
The study of speech sounds, their production and combination, and their representation by written symbols.
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The description and analysis of the sounds of a particular language.
The phonetics of English.
Webster's New World

(linguistics) The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.

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  • Notwithstanding certain points of resemblance in structure and phonetics, Albanian is entirely distinct from the neighbouring languages; in its relation to early Latin and Greek it may be regarded as a co-ordinate member of the Aryan stock.

  • However, she had a problem with German spelling as she spelled the words with English phonetics.

  • See Phonetics.

  • I teach phonetics and phonology on the following modules, which are described in more detail in the Departmental Handbook.

  • After leaving school she went to University College, London to read English, where she later studied phonetics under Daniel Jones.

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