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phonetics

[fo-net´iks]

the science of vocal sounds.

pho·net·ics

(fō-net'iks),

The science of speech and of pronunciation.

Synonym(s): phonology

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pho·net·ics

(fŏ-net'iks)

The science of speech and of pronunciation.

Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012

phonetics

The branch of linguistics concerned with the study of the speech sounds (phonemes) of a language and their classification and representation.

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pho·net·ics

(fŏ-net'iks)

Science of speech and pronunciation. Phonetic tests are used to determine vertical dimensions of occlusion (e.g., in sounding 'ch,''j,' and 's,' anterior teeth are brought closer together).

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Roach (2000) indicated that phoneticians must have an accurate system of vowels classification.

Hindko Vowel System

Golestani and colleagues investigated brain structure in expert phoneticians - individuals who are specialised in the study of phonetics and need to able to distinguish accurately between very similar speech sounds and subtle regional accents.

Henry Higgins was born with ability to correct Fair Lady Eliza's accent

Sixty-two leading clinical linguists and phoneticians from around the world contribute 38 chapters covering the main areas of research in the application of linguistic science to the study of communication disability in the clinical setting.

The handbook of clinical linguistics

There are several ways in which phoneticians have tried to measure the distance between two linguistic entities, most of which are based on the description of sounds via various representations.

Orthographic measures of language distances between the official South African languages/Ortografiese maatstawwe van taalafstande tussen die amptelike Suld-Afrikaanse tale

During our first experiments in statistical modelling we invited Estonian phoneticians and speech technologists to evaluate our first vector of argument features.

Modelling speech temporal structure for Estonian text-to-speech synthesis: feature selection

The cardinal vowels allow for a description of sounds in reference to specific points within the range of possibilities, allowing phoneticians to describe the sounds as higher or lower than a specific point of reference, forward or backward of a fixed point, or in the middle of the space between front and back or high and low vowels.

The acoustic properties of vowels: a tool for improving articulation and comprehension of English

The invention of spectrographic analysis in the 1940's, however, and early attempts to synthesize speech by concatenating invariant segments, brought home to phoneticians in a particularly dramatic way the lack of acoustic invariance associated with the units that we hear in the speech signal (Potter et al., 1947).

Where do phonemes come from? A view from the bottom

Prominent phoneticians and engineers spoke up against using voiceprints in court.

Forensic science, no consensus

In fact, a high-quality spectrogram displaying information only below 4,000 Hz would give trained phoneticians plenty to work with, assuming they wanted to do fairly standard phonetics.

Say what? (Letters)

to phoneticians who wish to learn more about a variety of phonological

The Mouton Interactive Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology and Phonetics: An Interactive Introduction

But the careful distinction of phonetic and phonemic qualities was essential for maintaining the correct recital of Vedic mantras, and the brahmin phoneticians and grammarians studied the distinctions with great care.