noun
- the study of speech sounds and how they are produced, transmitted, and received
Usage: linguistics; often used with singular verb
Examples
- She studied phonetics to become a speech therapist.
- The phonetics course covered vowel and consonant sounds.
- International phonetics uses symbols to represent all human speech sounds.
- His research in phonetics focused on accent variation.
- Phonetics is essential for language teachers.
- The phonetics lab had equipment to analyze sound waves.