phonetics

Noun
  1. The branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis (synset 106186749)
    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

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