ALL meanings of phonetics
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P p - noun phonetics (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character. 1
- adjective phonetics Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols. 1
- adjective phonetics corresponding to pronunciation: phonetic transcription. 1
- adjective phonetics agreeing with pronunciation: phonetic spelling. 1
- adjective phonetics concerning or involving the discrimination of nondistinctive elements of a language. In English, certain phonological features, as length and aspiration, are phonetic but not phonemic. 1
- uncountable noun phonetics In linguistics, phonetics is the study of speech sounds. 0
- adjective phonetics Phonetic means relating to the sound of a word or to the sounds that are used in languages. 0
- noun phonetics the science concerned with the study of speech processes, including the production, perception, and analysis of speech sounds from both an acoustic and a physiological point of view. This science, though capable of being applied to language studies, technically excludes linguistic considerations 0
- noun phonetics the study of speech sounds, their production and combination, and their representation by written symbols 0
- noun phonetics the description and analysis of the sounds of a particular language 0