Phonetics Definition

fə-nĕtĭks
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The study of speech sounds, their production and combination, and their representation by written symbols.
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The description and analysis of the sounds of a particular language.
The phonetics of English.
Webster's New World

(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.

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