Phonetics , the Study of the Production and Perception of Speech SoundsP

Phonetics

Phonetics is the study of the production and perception of speech sounds. It is concerned with the sounds of languge, how these sounds are articulated and how the hearer percieves them. Phonetics is related to the science of acoustics in that it uses much the same techniques in the analysis of sound that acoustics does. There are three sub-disciplines of phonetics:



* Articulatory Phonetics: the production of speech sounds.
* Acousitc Phonetics: the study of the physical production and transmission of speech sounds.
* Auditory Phonetics: the study of the perception of speech sounds.

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