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.

See Also

• Phonology (definition)

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)

References

• Ladefoged, D. (2010) A Course in Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wadsworth Publishing.