Phonetics
41acoustic phonetics — 1. the branch of science dealing with the sounds of speech in terms of their frequency, duration, intensity, etc., esp. as analyzed by means of instruments like the sound spectrograph and the oscillograph. Cf. articulatory phonetics. 2. a… …
42Aspiration (phonetics) — In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of air that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents. To feel or see the difference between aspirated and unaspirated sounds, one can put a hand… …
43Syncope (phonetics) — Sound change and alternation Metathesis Quantitative metathesis …
44International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association — The International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association is an international scholarly association dedicated to the study of speech disorders and other language disorders. It was founded in 1991. The Association sponsors an annual… …
45Lateral release (phonetics) — In phonetics, a lateral release is the release of a plosive consonant into a lateral consonant. Such sounds are transcribed in the IPA with a superscript el, for example as IPA| [dˡ] . In English words such as bottle, in which historically the… …
46Length (phonetics) — In phonetics, length or quantity is a feature of sounds that are distinctively longer than other sounds. There are long vowels as well as long consonants (the latter are often called geminates ).Many languages do not have distinctive length.… …
47Pre-voicing (phonetics) — In phonetics, prevoicing means that voicing begins before the release of a stop consonant. This means that the voice onset time has a negative value. In the Extended IPA for speech pathology, this is transcribed with a voicing diacritic placed in …
48Downstep (phonetics) — In phonetics, downstep is a phonemic or phonetic downward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language. It is best known in the tonal languages of West Africa, but the pitch accent of Japanese (a non tonal language) is quite… …
49Upstep (phonetics) — In phonetics, upstep is a phonemic or phonetic upward shift of tone between the syllables or words of a tonal language. Upstep is much rarer as a phoneme than its opposite, downstep.The symbol for upstep in the International Phonetic Alphabet is… …
50Muddy phonetics — is a new field of linguistics meant to cross check developments of related languages in that it tracks down phonetic changes over time based on the difference in phonetic environments provided by the languages concerned.For example, the German… …
