Phonetics
101Formant — A formant is a peak in the frequency spectrum of a sound caused by acoustic resonance. [Titze, I.R. (1994). Principles of Voice Production, Prentice Hall, ISBN 978 0137178933.] In phonetics, the word refers to sounds produced by the vocal tract.… …
102Linguistics — is the scientific study of language, encompassing a number of sub fields. An important topical division is between the study of language structure (grammar) and the study of meaning (semantics). Grammar encompasses morphology (the formation and… …
103History of linguistics — Linguistics as a study endeavors to describe and explain the human faculty of language.Historically, linguistic study was motivated by the correct description of a liturgical language, notably that of Sanskrit grammar by IAST|Pāṇini (fl. 4th… …
104Henry Sweet — (1845 1912) was an English philologist, phonetician and grammarian. [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O29 SWEETHenry.html Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language] ] As a philologist, he specialized in the Germanic languages, particularly …
105Spanish phonology — For assistance in making phonetic transcriptions of Spanish for Wikipedia articles, see . This article is about the phonology of the Spanish language. It deals with current phonology and phonetics as well as with historical developments thereof,… …
106David Abercrombie — For other people named David Abercrombie, see David Abercrombie (disambiguation). David Abercrombie (1909–1992) was a British phonetician who established the Department of Phonetics at the University of Edinburgh. He was a student of J. R. Firth… …
107Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie — The Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (LPP) is a CNRS laboratory affiliated with the in Paris, France. Its directors are Jacqueline Vaissière and Annie Rialland (in alternation).The LPP is a Mixed Research Unit (UMR 7018) specialized in… …
108Khoisan languages — Group of more than 20 languages presently spoken by perhaps several hundred thousand Khoekhoe and San peoples of southern Africa. A number of Khoisan languages are now either extinct or spoken by very few people. Their most distinctive linguistic …
109Ladefoged, Peter Nielsen — ▪ 2007 British born American linguist and phonetician (b. Sept. 17, 1925, Sutton, Eng. d. Jan. 24, 2006, London, Eng.), traveled to remote villages around the world in an effort to record and analyze some 60 endangered languages. He also… …
110Quantitative comparative linguistics — is a branch of comparative linguistics that applies mathematical models to the problem of classifying language relatedness. This includes the use of computational phylogenetics and cladistics to define an optimal tree (or network) to represent a… …
