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Phonetics   /fənˈɛtɪks/   Listen
Phonetics

noun
1.
The branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis.





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"Phonetics" Quotes from Famous Books



... The Horse. Phonetics The Foal, oa sound. Number Problems on the work of horses. Story The Bell of Atri [story of a horse ringing a bell]. Song Busy Blacksmith [shoeing a horse]. Game The Blacksmith's Shop. Reading On ...
— The Child Under Eight • E.R. Murray and Henrietta Brown Smith
... desirable and inevitable: the second is not only undesirable but impracticable, though this would not preclude a good deal of reasonable reform in our literary spelling in a phonetic direction. Those who fear that if phonetics is taught in the schools it will then follow that our books will be commonly printed in phonetic symbols, should read Dr. Henry Bradley's lecture to the British Academy 'On the relations between spoken ...
— Society for Pure English, Tract 3 (1920) - A Few Practical Suggestions • Society for Pure English


Words linked to "Phonetics" :   sound, phonetician, lax, short, acoustics, tense, dissimilate, infection, phonetic, phone, assimilate, speech sound, long, shift, constricted


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