The document provides an overview of phonetics, defining it as the study of speech sounds specifically related to human speech. It distinguishes between vowels, defined as sounds made with vocal cords, and consonants, which are other types of speech sounds. The document also hints at further discussion regarding special kinds of nouns in English grammar.

78. A Different Kind of
Grammar for a Minute...

79. A Different Kind of
Grammar for a Minute...
Three Important Terms.

80. Phonetics

81. Phonetics
This is the study of speech sounds.

82. Phonetics
This is the study of speech sounds.
Not sound in general. (That’s acoustics.)
Not speech in general. (That’s linguistics.)
But specifically the sounds of human speech.

83. Vowel

84. Vowel
This is a speech sound made
with the vocal chords.

85. Vowel
This is a speech sound made
with the vocal chords.
Note that a vowel ≠ letter.
Vowels are sounds.

86. How many vowels are in the following words?
(Bear in mind how we just defined vowel.)

87. How many vowels are in the following words?
(Bear in mind how we just defined vowel.)
good
great
beautiful
lovely
tremendous

88. Consonant

89. Consonant
These are the other speech sounds.

90. Consonant
These are the other speech sounds.
Like [p], [b], [f], [v], [k], [g], [t], [d], [þ], [ð], [x], [γ],
[l], [r], [m], [n], [s], [z], [š], [ž], [β] and so forth.

91. But now back to our four special kinds of English nouns...

92. How about in the Humanities?

115. More of all this anon!

116. But first...

129. And finally,
one last look at
English
Grammar
and our four
new types
of nouns...