phonetics

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noun

the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis (Freq. 1)
• Derivationally related forms:
phonetic, phonetician
• Members of this Topic:
long, short, tense, constricted, lax,
lax, speech sound, sound, infection, assimilate,
dissimilate, shift
• Hypernyms:
acoustics