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phonetics

[fuh-net-iks, foh-] / fəˈnɛt ɪks, foʊ- /


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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

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

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 and picturegraphs, the various alphabets and glyphs, are mixed and modified, but never invented nor altogether changed.

From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by Buck, J. D. (Jirah Dewey)




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