 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
phonetics
noun: the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes
including its production and perception and acoustic
analysis
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Phonetics \Pho*net"ics\, noun
1. The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the
human voice; phonology.
2. The art of representing vocal sounds by signs and written
characters.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "phonetics":
ablaut, acoustic phonetics, articulatory phonetics, audiometer,
auriscope, auriscopy, betacism, bowwow theory, cacography,
comparative linguistics, derivation, descriptive linguistics,
dialectology, dingdong theory, etymology, glossematics, glossology,
glottochronology, glottology, gradation, grammar, graphemics,
historical linguistics, language study, lexicology,
lexicostatistics, linguistic geography, linguistic science,
linguistics, mathematical linguistics, morphology, morphophonemics,
mutation, orthoepy, orthography, otography, otolaryngology,
otology, otoneurology, otopathy, otoplasty, otoscope, otoscopy,
paleography, philology, phonetic spelling, phonography, phonology,
psycholinguistics, rhotacism, semantics, sociolinguistics,
sound shift, spelldown, spelling, spelling bee, spelling match,
spelling reform, structuralism, syntactics,
transformational linguistics, umlaut
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