Definition of Phonetics History of Phonetics Branches of Phonetics Linguistics and Phonetics

2. Phonetics is the scientific study of the production,
transmission, and reception of speech sounds.
It studies the medium of spoken language.
Phonetics

3. Touching upon physiology and physics, phonetics
is now a pure science that studies speech process,
including the anatomy, neurology, and pathology
of speech, as well as the articulation, description,
classification, production, and perception of
speech sounds.
Phonetics

4. Phonetics looks at speech from three distinct but interdependent
viewpoint :
It studies the speech organs, which produce sounds of language
It studies waves, the physical form in which sounds are
transmitted through the air from one person to another
It studies the way in which human beings perceive sounds through
the medium of the ear
Phonetics

5. The 16th Century
The 16th Century Writers were –
John Palsgrave (l'éclaircissement de la langue francoyse, 1530)
William Salesbury (Dictionary in English and Welshe, 1547)
Thomas Smith (De rectaet emendata linguae anglicae scriptone, 1568)
History of Phonetics

6. The 17th Century
Among the 17th Century phoneticians, the most
important name is that “Christopher Cooper”. His
work on English pronunciation was first published
in 1685 Grammatica Linguae Anicanae.
History of Phonetics

7. The 18th Century
The 18th Century Writers were –
Samuel Johnson (1755)
Thomas Sheridan (1780)
John Walker (1791)
History of Phonetics

8. The 19th Century
In England Alexander J. Ellis (1814-90) presented
to English children as well as to foreigners, an
alphabet (Phenotype,1847)
History of Phonetics

9. History of Phonetics
The 20th Century
The 16th Century Writers were –
Daniel Jones,
Morris halle
Trager and smith

10. Acoustic Phonetics
The branch of PHONETICS which studies the physical
properties of speech sound, as transmitted between
mouth and ear, according to the principles of acoustics.
Branches of Phonetics

11. Articulatory Phonetics
The branch of PHONETICS which studies the way
in which speech sounds are made by the VOCAL
ORGANS.
Branches of Phonetics

12. Auditory Phonetics
The branch of PHONETICS which studies the perceptual
response to speech sounds as mediated by ear, auditory
nerve, and brain.
Branches of Phonetics

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