phonetics

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Oddleif (Communic): Yes, the melody and phonetics are the most important, then the music and composition - the meaning comes in last, I'm afraid …

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  1. noun The branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols.
  2. noun The system of sounds of a particular language.

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  • The knowledge was unlike her; even the phonetics, grammar, style were different. —  Omni: April 1994
  • Not just letters, there are also numbers and mathematical symbols, APL symbols, phonetics, copyright and trademark symbols, arrow symbols, and many more. —  Softpedia - Windows - All
  • "I took my lunch money and studied with this woman who taught me the basics of phonetics," —  WFAA.com Latest News
  • The graduate degree work to acquire a master's in Speech-Language Pathology is rigorous and demanding, requiring many hours of supervised clinical practica, and intensive didactic coursework in medical sciences, phonetics, linguistics, phonology, scientific methodology, and other subjects. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • And even when all these were done we would have the enormous examination of the phonetics and the syntax of the language − and this − for British Guiana alone. —  Stabroek News
 

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/fəˈnɛtɪks/
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