phonetics
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Peter French, president of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, said he had never heard of comparing a screaming voice with a normal voice for identification.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2013
Phonetics is concerned with the physical properties of speech.
From US News • Jul. 29, 2011
Assistant Professor of Phonetics Marie Katherine Mason of Ohio State examined Addie Belle and reported that she now had a serious hearing impairment, was almost deaf.
From Time Magazine Archive
Phonetics professors and small-town con men may be Out, but star them in musicals called My Fair Lady and The Music Man and they couldn't be more delightfully In.
From Time Magazine Archive
Phonetics which represent letters only and not syllables may be called alphabetic signs, in contradistinction to syllabic signs.
From Cleopatra's Needle A History of the London Obelisk, with an Exposition of the Hieroglyphics by King, James
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