phonetics
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
phonetics/fəˈnetɪks/
▶plural noun [treated as sing.] the study and classification of speech sounds.
– derivatives
phonetician /ˌfəʊnɪˈtɪʃ(ə)n/ noun.
phonetician /ˌfəʊnɪˈtɪʃ(ə)n/ noun.
'phonetics' also found in these Oxford entries:
affricate
- agma
- allograph
- allophone
- alveolar
- anaptyxis
- anterior
- apical
- articulation
- aspirate
- assibilate
- assimilate
- back
- backing
- bilabial
- break
- cacuminal
- cardinal vowel
- cerebral
- close
- closed
- continuant
- coronal
- crasis
- dental
- devoice
- ejective
- formant
- fortis
- fracture
- fricative
- front
- geminate
- glide
- high
- indeterminate vowel
- intrusive
- juncture
- labial
- labiodental
- labiovelar
- laryngeal
- lateral
- lax
- length
- lenis
- liaison
- linking
- long
- low
