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What is phonetics?

What is phonetics? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (linguistics) The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.
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The phonetics and pronunciation of Arabic names, almost alien to English when transliterated, were confusing and, at times, inaccurate.
In phonetics, the sense of movement in speech consists of the stress, quantity, and timing of syllables.
His remarks on French, focus on syntax and semantics, all but omitting phonology, phonetics and orthography.
Bingley Little Theatre stages the play about the phonetics professor who teaches a Cockney flower girl to speak properly.
Those of us here on Language Log who cite exotic languages or talk about phonetics frequently use the International Phonetic Alphabet.
These are followed by his gloss, the modern form in phonetics, and in some cases comments.

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