LINGUISTICS AND SPEECH ACOUSTICS


Because of its importance in communication, the study of language as both a communicational and acoustic system is highly developed. Here we touch on only the most basic definitions in each area.

A) Linguistics:
Phonetics
Phonemics
Phonology
Phoneme
Phone
Morpheme
Allophone
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B) Speech acoustics:
Vowel
Consonant
Formant
Sibilance
Vocal Stop
Sonagram

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