Phonetics (definition)

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

• articulatory phonetics, which involves the physics of and movements within the vocal tract;
• acoustic phonetics, which involves the analysis and breakdown of the physical properties of the speech stream; and
• auditory phonetics, which involves the perception and processing of the speech stream.

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.