Associations to the word «Phonetics»

Wiktionary

PHONETICS, noun. (linguistics) The study of the physical sounds of human speech, 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.

Dictionary definition

PHONETICS, noun. The branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis.

Wise words

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates