2 Phonetics

The study of the physics and physiology of speech sounds

1. By domain: Articulatory, acoustic, auditory
2. By observational method: perception, measurement
3. By structure: collection, experiment

Typical topics:

• Details of pronunciation: variants of /l/, /k/, ...
• Acoustic, articulatory, auditory correlates of linguistic units
• Functional and process-oriented models (e.g. distributed neural nets)
• Support for speech technology