Meaning | The branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis. |
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Category of | assimilate | Become similar in sound |
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constricted | especially tense |
dissimilate | Become dissimilar / dissimilar by changing the sound qualities |
infection | (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound |
lax | pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in 'bet') |
long | (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration |
phone, speech sound, sound | (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language |
shift | change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change |
short | Of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration |
tense | pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in 'beat') |
Broader | acoustics | The study of the physical properties of sound |
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Spanish | fonética |
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Catalan | fonètica |
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Adjectives | phonetic | of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds |
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phonetic | of or relating to speech sounds |
Nouns | phonetician | a specialist in phonetics |
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