"phonetics" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

associated with:
- phone, sound, speech sound - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- infection - (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
- assimilate - become similar in sound
- dissimilate - become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities
- shift - change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change
- long - (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- short - of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
- tense - pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat')
- constricted - especially tense; especially in some dialects
- lax - pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in `bet')
is a type of: acoustics - the study of the physical properties of sound