History of Phonetics

Phonetics is the study of the creation, objective nature, and awareness of vocal sounds, mainly speech sounds. Some of the well known phonetics are, articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, and auditory phonetics. Phonetics is sometimes viewed as a subfield of linguistics, even though all of the features are not directly involved in the study of language; acoustic phonetics, in particular, deals with issues belonging to the purview of physics. The term “phonology” is occasionally used in an open sense to refer to the study of vocal sounds, including both general phonetics and the analysis of sounds in a language; it is also often used more distinctively to refer to the area of linguistics concerned with how sounds express meaning in particular languages.
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