Phonology areas

Phonology areas

1. Acoustic phonetics

   • Acoustic phonetics is the study of sound waves made by the human vocal organs for communication.

2. Auditory phonetics

   • Is the study of how sounds are perceived by the human ear or recognized by the brain

3. Articulatory phonetics

   • Is the study of how saounds are produced by the vocal apparatus
     • The air stream system.
     • The phonation process
     • The oronasal process
   • Compunds of the sound
     • Intensity. Pitch, Tone & Harmony
   • The reception of the sound
     • We heard vibration that pass through our outer, middle & inner ear and reach our brain as electric signals for your interpretation
   • How sound is produced
     • Speech sounds are produced when air is exhaled from the lungs and causes either vibration of vocal cord or turbulence at some point of contriction in the vocal tract.

4. Phoneme

   • any of the perceptually distinct units of sound in a specified language that distinguish one word from another.

5. allophone

   • any of the speech sounds that represent a single phoneme