Phonetics major branches Flashcards
phonetics
study of speech sounds including formation (articulation), acoustic properties (substance) and perception with the goal of understanding and improving linguistic expression
phonetician
person who studies speech sounds
experimental
study of and experimentation with speech sounds includes development of synthesized speech
articulatory
how sounds are produced
acoustic
nature of speech sounds
perceptual
speech sound reception
applied
purpose of solving real life problems
normative (applied)
normal speech
clinical (applied)
remediation of speech disorders
applied linguistic phonetics
historical (diachronic)
descriptive (synchronic)
comparative (contrastive)
historical linguistic (diachronic)
changes in sounds over time
(2 different times)
descriptive linguistic (synchronic)
sounds at one point in time
comparative linguistic (contrastive)
differences and similarities of sounds of two languages
dialectology (linguistic geography)
variations of sound production based on where you live
pragmatic (linguistic)
changes in sound productions due to situations