What is Phonetics?

Phonetics is the study of the articulatory and acoustic properties of the sounds of human language.

Lessons

• The Physics and Physiology of Speech
• Consonants: Voicing and Place of Articulation
• Consonants: Manner of Articulation
• Vowels
• Acoustics
• Formants
• Extracting Formant values

The exercises on the following pages are designed to illustrate characteristics of phonetic analysis.  The study of phonetics is the study of the acoustic and articulatory properties of speech sounds.

Exercises

• Standard English Place of Articulation
• Standard English Manner of Articulation
• Standard English Vowels
• Other Exercises