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phonetics, n.
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the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis
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phonetics

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derivationally related form

phonetic phonetic phonetician

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member of this domain (topic)

long short tense constricted lax sound, phone, speech sound infection assimilate dissimilate shift

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acoustics