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Phonetics   /fənˈɛtɪks/   Listen
noun
Phonetics  n.  
1.
The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.
2.
The art of representing vocal sounds by signs and written characters.





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"Phonetics" Quotes from Famous Books



... English philologist, born at Horeton; published many papers on phonetics and early English pronunciation; was President of the Philological Society; his name, originally Sharpe, changed ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... of a Brythonic group, arriving early in Britain and driven northwards by newcomers? Professor Windisch and Dr. Stokes regard them as Celts, allied to the Brythons rather than to the Goidels, the phonetics of their speech resembling those of ...
— The Religion of the Ancient Celts • J. A. MacCulloch


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