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What is Phonetics?
Phonetics, as a branch of Linguistics, concerns the scientific study of how speech sounds are produced, transmitted and perceived. Phonetics is strictly about audible speech sounds and the thing that happens in your mouth, throat, nasal and sinus ( the skull and connected to the nasal airway by a narrow hole in the bone (ostium). Normally all sinuses are open to the nasal airway through an ostium) cavities, and lungs to make those sounds. It has nothing to do with meaning. Phonetics is descriptive. Phonetics is also the science or study of speech sounds and their production, transmission, and reception, and their analysis, classification, and transcription.
Scientistific study of speech sounds of a language.
Phonetician
A specialist in phonetics or in some aspect of phonetics is called a PHONETICIAN. The primary duty of a phonetician is to carry out rigorous studies of the human sounds made for the purpose of communication.
Language study specialist
Reasons for Phonetical studies
to be able to identify all the possible human sounds made for the purpose of oral communication. Another purpose of a phonetic study is to be able to describe and explain each of these identified sounds. One last main purpose of a phonetician is to be able to explain how these human sounds are produced (articulatory), transmitted (acoustic) and perceived (auditory). These form the three major (but not always easy to differentiate) types of phonetics, as shall be explained shortly.
Reasons for phonetical research
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