Phonetics/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Language [r]: A type of communication system, commonly used in linguistics, computer science and other fields to refer to different systems, including 'natural language' in humans, programming languages run on computers, and so on. A wider definition of language - what counts as a language and what doesn't - is a difficult philosophical topic, deserving an article in its own right. ^[e]
• Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. ^[e]
• Natural language [r]: A communication system based on sequences of acoustic, visual or tactile symbols that serve as units of meaning. ^[e]
• Spoken language [r]: An example of language produced using some of the articulatory organs, e.g. the mouth, vocal folds or lungs, or intended for production by these organs; alternatively, the entire act of communicating verbally - what people mean or intend, the words they use, their accent, intonation and so on. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Acoustic phonetics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Auditory phonetics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Articulatory phonetics [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Frequency [r]: For a periodic (i.e., repeating) phenomena, the number of repetitions per unit of time, usually one second; measured in Hertz ^[e]
• Amplitude [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Human voice [r]: Add brief definition or description
• International Phonetic Alphabet [r]: System of phonetic notation based on the Latin alphabet, devised by the International Phonetic Association as a standardized representation of the sounds of spoken language. ^[e]

Speech sounds

• Consonant [r]: Unit of language, defined in phonetics as a speech sound that involves full or partial 'closure' of the mouth, and in phonology as a segment that cannot occupy the nucleus or 'peak' of a syllable. ^[e]
  • Obstruent [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sonorant [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Vowel [r]: Speech sound with relatively unhindered airflow; different vowels are articulated mainly through tongue movements at the palatal and velar regions of the mouth, and are usually voiced (i.e. involve vocal fold movement). ^[e]

Phonetic processes

• Palatalization [r]: An umbrella term for several processes of assimilation in phonetics and phonology, by which the articulation of a consonant is changed under the influence of a preceding or following front vowel or a palatal or palatalized consonant. ^[e]
• Voicing (linguistics) [r]: Either the physical production of vibration by the vocal folds as part of articulation, or the potential phonological distinction this allows, i.e. the distinct difference between units such as [b] and [p] in many languages. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Hearing [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ear [r]: The organ that detects sound. ^[e]
• Phonology [r]: In linguistics, the study of the system used to represent language, including sounds in spoken language and hand movements in sign language. ^[e]
• Phoneme [r]: Theoretical unit of language that can distinguish words or syllables, such as /b/ versus /m/; often considered the smallest unit of language, but is a transcription convention rather than a true unit in most models of phonology since the 1960s. ^[e]
• Theoretical linguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description