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Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Cecilia Bembibre, in Jan. 2011
Within the science known as linguistics we found a very branch important which is known as phonetics. Phonetics is dedicated to studying the sounds emitted by the human voice, its training and its variants depending on the position of the different parts of the speech system that include from the language even more internal organs in the throat.
When learning a non-native language, phonetics is always a fundamental part of the learning process. learning since it is the part of the language that allows us to pronounce each sound, each word in the correct way, leaving side with the typical intonation of the language that one has from birth and pronouncing the words as they do the native people.
Phonetics is especially interested in analyze how the human being produces the different sounds that are later used in speech. In this sense, phonetics creates different symbologies that seek to represent each of these sounds in order to make them easier to recognize and analyze.
Thus, each word is made up of a specific set of sounds that are generally represented by different symbols than those represented by the letters of the alphabet. To understand them, phonetics also seeks to understand how each sound is produced by the different parts of the mouth and the vocal cord system in order to easily repeat them later.
Phonetics has several sub-branches that have to watch with different applications and ways of carrying out the use of the language. Thus, some of the existing branches within phonetics are phonetics experimental, articulatory and acoustic. All of them try to analyze the physical phenomenon of speech within different parameters that have to do with how sound is produced, but also with how sound is sent abroad.
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