Phonetics, the study of speech sounds and their physiological
production and acoustic qualities. It deals with the configurations
of the vocal tract used to produce speech sounds (articulatory
phonetics), the acoustic properties of speech sounds (acoustic
phonetics), and the manner of combining sounds so as to make
syllables, words, and sentences (linguistic phonetics).
Acoustic phonetics
Articulatory phonetics
Auditory phonetics
Acoustic
phonetics