phonetics

(noun)

The study of the physical sounds of human speech (phones) and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, as well as their representation by written symbols.

Related Terms

  • homophone
  • typo

Examples of phonetics in the following topics:

  • Common Spelling Errors

    • Phonetics is a field that studies the sounds of a language.
    • However, English phonetics can be tricky: In English, the pronunciation of a word does not always relate to the way it is spelled.
    • Here are some common phonetic irregularities:
    • For example: "concede" and "conceed" are the same phonetically, but only "concede" is the proper spelling.
    • "Right," for example, does not resemble its phonetic spelling whatsoever.
  • Levels of Processing

    • There are three levels of processing for verbal data: structural, phonetic, and semantic.
    • Phonetic processing is how we hear the word—the sounds it makes when the letters are read together.
    • Phonetic processing is deeper than structural processing; that is, we are more likely to remember verbal information if we process it phonetically.
    • To return to the example of trying to remember the name of a restaurant: if the name of the restaurant has no semantic meaning to you (for instance, if it's a word in another language, like "Vermicelli"), you might still be able to remember the name if you have processed it phonetically and can think, "It started with a V sound and it rhymed with belly."
  • Introduction to Language

    • Phonetics is the study of individual speech sounds; phonology is the study of phonemes, which are the speech sounds of an individual language.
    • These include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
  • The Mixteca-Puebla Tradition

    • Primarily producing work in stone, wood, and metal, they are well known for their "Codices," or phonetic pictures in which their history and genealogies were written.
  • Sensation to Perception

    • After processing the initial auditory signal, speech sounds are further processed to extract acoustic cues and phonetic information.
  • The Mixtec

    • The Mixtec are well known in the anthropological world for their codices, or phonetic pictures, in which they wrote their history and genealogies in deerskin in the "fold-book" form.
  • Stages of Sleep

    • NREM, or non-REM, is pronounced phonetically as well, with the "N" standing alone ["en-rehm"].)
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