Phonetics is all about studying the sounds we make when we talk. There are three main branches of this discipline: This is the study of the sound waves made by the human vocal organs for communication ...
We begin our discussion of phonetics, the study of speech sounds. The letters in a word don’t always match the sounds they represent, and people can pronounce words in different ways. We begin our ...
In a Lingua Franca post a few weeks ago, I needed to use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to represent the different pronunciations of the English word People still talk about speech sounds ...