Tuesday, December 19, 2006

What is ‘Phonetics’?

What is ‘Phonetics’?

George Yule defines phonetics as :
‘The general study of the characteristics of speech sound of languages’.

T. Bal Subramanian explains phonetics in these words:
“Linguistics is the systematic study of languages. Phonetics is a branch of linguistics and it is the branch dealing with the medium of speech. It deals with the production, transmission and reception of the sounds of human speech”.

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