Definitions for phonetics

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phonetics pho·net·ics

Spelling: [fuh-net-iks, foh-]

IPA: /fəˈnɛt ɪks, foʊ-/

Phonetics is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 701 anagrams from letters in phonetics (cehinopst).

Definitions for phonetics

noun

1. the science or study of speech sounds and their production, transmission, and reception, and their analysis, classification, and transcription. Compare acoustic phonetics, articulatory phonetics, auditory phonetics, physiological phonetics.
2. the phonetic system or the body of phonetic facts of a particular language.
3. the symbols used to represent the speech sounds of a language.
4. (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.

adjective

1. Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
2. corresponding to pronunciation:
3. agreeing with pronunciation:
4. concerning or involving the discrimination of nondistinctive elements of a language. In English, certain phonological features, as length and aspiration, are phonetic but not phonemic.

Origin of phonetics

First recorded in 1835-45; See origin at phonetic, -ics

Examples for phonetics

The operator had taken it literally, and it was a small study in phonetics.

It was a small step in learning to stick to my guns, but a leap in my comprehension of phonetics.

(a) phonetics, which teaches us to recognize and to reproduce sounds and tones.

Jones is lecturer in phonetics at University College, London.

In its phonetics, it possesses six elements which to the Spaniards were new.

Sussex men are curiously intolerant of the phonetics of orthography.

How can we combine a study of phonetics with a study of orthography?

There is a difference between a connexion in phonetics and a connexion in grammar.

Here the connexion in phonetics and the connexion in language do not closely coincide.

Almost all French speakers have to do a serious amount of self-study to become conversant, especially when it comes to phonetics.