Associations to the word «Phonetics»

Wiktionary

PHONETICS, noun. (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.

Dictionary definition

PHONETICS, noun. The branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats