Phonetics (definition)

Phonetics is the study of speech sounds. It is usually separated into three subfields of study:

• articulatory phonetics, which studies what is involved with making the mouth create the sounds of language.
• acoustic phonetics, which studies the physical properties of the stream of air of speech sounds.
• auditory phonetics, which studies the way in which the human ear processes speech sounds.

External Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonetics

• http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/Phonetics.html

• http://www.unc.edu/~jlsmith/pht-url.html#(0)