Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols.
- noun The system of sounds of a particular language.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Phonetic science; that division of language-study which deals with articulate sounds and whatever concerns them: phonology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.
- noun The art of representing vocal sounds by signs and written characters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun linguistics The study of the physical
sounds of humanspeech , concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis
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Besides, the overseas materials incorporating no pronunciation tips and lessons attract our teachers and others concerned because very many of them do not have any formal and adequate training in English phonetics and phonology as well as EFL pronunciation teaching.
Teaching Efl Pronunciation: Why, What and How? « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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Taking a class in phonetics (not phonics) is a great help in learning Spanish, or any other language.
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Taking a class in phonetics (not phonics) is a great help in learning Spanish, or any other language.
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Taking a class in phonetics (not phonics) is a great help in learning Spanish, or any other language.
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Taking a class in phonetics (not phonics) is a great help in learning Spanish, or any other language.
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Taking a class in phonetics (not phonics) is a great help in learning Spanish, or any other language.
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Taking a class in phonetics (not phonics) is a great help in learning Spanish, or any other language.
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The things people love about phonetics is that it’s traditions, structured, and authoritarian. roublen Says:
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But I don’t think I’ve ever heard “mid” outside of a prefix context, with the exceptions of “mid vowels” in phonetics and “mid” as a truncated form of “amid”.
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However, Kennedy did pronounce the sentence with his Boston accent, reading from his note “ish bin ein Bearleener,” which he had written out in English phonetics.
TGIF: Another Eddie Izzard video « Musings from an overworked translator 2008
Telofy commented on the word phonetics
“... Words. I have to remember to speak words now. I say something. But you do not hear me unless I move my lips. To move my lips and my tongue ... while I make this noise in my throat.�?
– Mamelta in Gene Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun
August 10, 2009
arcadia commented on the word phonetics
"Hukt on fonix wurkt for me!"
August 10, 2009