Phonetics is the study of human speech sounds.

Branches

• Articulatory phonetics

  The study of how speech sounds are produced by the human vocal apparatus.

• Acoustic phonetics

  The study of the sound waves made by the human vocal organs for communication.

• Auditory phonetics

  The study of how speech sounds are perceived by the ear, auditory nerve, and brain.

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.

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