Because of its importance in communication, the study of language as both a communicational and acoustic system is highly developed. Here we touch on only the most basic definitions in each area.
A) Linguistics:
Phonetics |
Phonemics |
Phonology |
Phoneme |
Phone |
Morpheme |
Allophone |
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B) Speech acoustics:
Vowel |
Consonant |
Formant |
Sibilance |
Vocal Stop |
Sonagram |