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  1. Phonetics | Definition, Types, Examples, & Facts | Britannica

    Nov 24, 2025 · phonetics, the study of speech sounds and their physiological production and acoustic qualities.

  2. Phonetics - Phonology, Rules, Speech | Britannica

    Nov 24, 2025 · Phonetics - Phonology, Rules, Speech: In the lexicon of a language, each word is represented in its underlying, or basic, form, which discounts all of the alternations in pronunciation …

  3. phonetics summary | Britannica

    phonetics, Study of speech sounds. It deals with their articulation (articulatory phonetics), their acoustic properties (acoustic phonetics), and how they combine to make syllables, words, and sentences …

  4. Phonetics - Vowel Formants, Acoustics, Articulation | Britannica

    Nov 24, 2025 · Phonetics is part of linguistics in that one of the main aims of phonetics is to determine the categories that can be used in explanatory description of languages.

  5. Phonology | Phonetics, Speech Sounds, Articulation | Britannica

    phonetics, the study of speech sounds and their physiological production and acoustic qualities.

  6. Phonetics - Chomsky-Halle, Features, Speech | Britannica

    Nov 24, 2025 · Phonetics - Chomsky-Halle, Features, Speech: Some of the binary features proposed by Chomsky and Halle are listed in Table 1. The first group comprises major class features, because …

  7. Phonetics - Stops, Articulation, Acoustics | Britannica

    Nov 24, 2025 · Phonetics - Stops, Articulation, Acoustics: Stops involve closure of the articulators to obstruct the airstream. This manner of articulation can be considered in terms of nasal and oral stops.

  8. Phonetics - Vowel Sounds, Articulation, Acoustics | Britannica

    Nov 24, 2025 · Phonetics - Vowel Sounds, Articulation, Acoustics: Vowels traditionally have been specified in terms of the position of the highest point of the tongue and the position of the lips.

  9. Phonetics - Speech, Acoustics, Articulation | Britannica

    Oct 8, 2025 · Phonetics - Speech, Acoustics, Articulation: Experimental phonetics employs the methods of investigation commonly used in other disciplines—e.g., physics, physiology, and psychology—for …

  10. Phonetics - Trills, Articulation, Vowels | Britannica

    Nov 24, 2025 · Phonetics - Trills, Articulation, Vowels: A trill results when an articulator is held loosely fairly close to another articulator, so that it is set into vibration by the airstream. The tongue tip and …