phoneticsnoun [ U ]
uk/fəˈnet.ɪks/us/foʊˈnet̬.ɪks/specializedthe study of the sounds made by the human voice in speech
Examples
- Linguistics embraces a diverse range of subjects such as phonetics and stylistics.
- a dictionary of phonetics
- articulatory/acoustic phonetics
- I need to brush up on my English phonetics.
- Does the entry for that word show phonetics?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: phonology & phonetics
- alveolar
- approximant
- articulatory
- aspiration
- assimilation
- clear l
- clipped
- consonant
- nasalization
- onomatopoeia
- palatal
- palato-alveolar
- pharyngeal
- phoneme
- pronounce
- silent letter
- velum
- voiced
- vowel
- weak form
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