Introduction

Question 1

What is Phonetics?

Answer 1

Component of linguistics that deals with the articulation, transmission and reception of speech sounds.

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Different branches of Phonetics

Answer 2

Articulatory Phonetics, Acoustic Phonetics, Auditory/Perceptual Phonetics

Question 3

Articulatory Phonetics

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1. How sounds are produced or articulated

2. Also known as Physiology Phonetics, as it recognises the sounds produced by some of the organs of the body

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Acoustic Phonetics

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Deals with the transmission of sound. Sound travel through the air in the form of waves.

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Auditory/Perceptual Phonetics

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Deals with how speech sounds are perceived

Question 6

First study of Phonetics

Answer 6

Done by Panini (Hindu Scholar) in 5th - 6th C BC. Studies the relationship between Vedanta text and vernacular language. His text “Ashtadhyayi” is a Sanskrit treatise on grammar. Inspired linguists Ferdinand de Saussure and Leonard Bloomfield