What is phonetics?
Q: What is phonetics?
A: Phonetics is the science of the sounds of human speech. It studies the nature of sounds in speech, how they are made, heard and thought of, and how they are represented by the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Q: Who is an expert in phonetics?
A: Someone who is an expert in phonetics is called a phonetician.
Q: What are two parts of orthographical linguistics?
A: The two parts of orthographical linguistics are phonetics and spelling.
Q: How many different phones does the International Phonetic Association recognize?
A: The International Phonetic Association recognizes more than 100 different phones.
Q: When was phonetics first studied?
A: Phonetics was first studied 2,500 years ago in what is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan with Pāṇini when he wrote about consonants in Sanskrit in his 5th century BC essay on Sanskrit linguistics.
Q: What are three main branches of phonetics?
A: The three main branches of phonetics are articulatory phonetics (regarding place and movement), acoustic phonetcs (concerned with sound waves) and auditory phontics (concerned with speech perception).
Q: How did Pāṇini order consonants when he wrote about them?
A; Pāṇini ordered consonants according to their place and manner of articulation when he wrote about them.
