Definition of Phonetics

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Definition of Phonetics
	Phonetics The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology. The art of representing vocal sounds by signs and written characters. Related Definitions: And, Art, By, Doctrine, Especially, Human, Of, Or, Phonology, Science, The, Those, Vocal, Voice, Written

Phonetics Quotations

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.
Roman Jakobson

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.
Roman Jakobson

The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing.
Thomas Edward Brown

Phonetics Translations

phonetics in Dutch is fonetiek, klankleer
phonetics in German is Phonetik

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