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phonetics

/fuh-net-iks, foh-/US // fəˈnɛt ɪks, foʊ- //UK // (fəˈnɛtɪks) //

语音学,语音,韵律学,声波学

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the science or study of speech sounds and their production, transmission, and reception, and their analysis, classification, and transcription.Compare acoustic phonetics, articulatory phonetics, auditory phonetics, physiological phonetics.
    • : the phonetic system or the body of phonetic facts of a particular language.
    • : the symbols used to represent the speech sounds of a language.

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Examples

  • It was a small step in learning to stick to my guns, but a leap in my comprehension of phonetics.

  • Almost all French speakers have to do a serious amount of self-study to become conversant, especially when it comes to phonetics.

  • My endeavour has been to put things very simply, and to make the beginner in phonetics hear for himself.

  • Modern writers in their zeal for phonetics seem to have lost their sense of proportion.

  • Their influence reaches far beyond the proper sphere of phonetics and invades that of morphology, as we shall see.

  • In phonetics, as in vocabulary, we must be careful not to exaggerate the importance of interlinguistic influences.

  • She isn't sorry to tally the pet (whose phonetics we employ) "dest wunced round the p on her soulders, only zis wunced."