phonetic
Representing spoken sounds
Phonetic relates to the sounds of speech.
A phonetic alphabet uses symbols to represent pronunciation precisely, one symbol per sound.
Phonetic spelling shows how words actually sound rather than their conventional spelling: The phonetic spelling of "knight" would be "nite".
Languages with phonetic writing systems spell words as they're pronounced.
Non-distinctive sound variation
- articulatoryOf speech sound production
- consonantIn agreement with
- vowelUnobstructed speech sound
- diphthongComplex vowel gliding between positions
monophthong · syllable · morpheme · segmental · assimilation · elision · nasality · voicing
Clear vocal expression
- enunciationClarity of spoken words
- dictionChoice of words
- accentRegional speech pattern
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
intonation · prosody · tone · aspiration · elocution · utterance · cadence · inflection
Expressed in words aloud
- oralOf the mouth
- verbalOf or in words
- audibleCapable of being detected by ear
- vocalizationProducing sounds with voice
voice · talking · speaker · listener · communication · intelligibility · clarity · recognition
allophone
Non-distinctive sound variation
- articulatoryOf speech sound production
- consonantIn agreement with
- vowelUnobstructed speech sound
diphthong · monophthong · syllable · morpheme · segmental · assimilation · elision · nasality · voicing · labial
articulation
Clear vocal expression
- enunciationClarity of spoken words
- dictionChoice of words
- accentRegional speech pattern
stress · intonation · prosody · tone · aspiration · elocution · utterance · cadence · inflection · spelling
spoken
Expressed in words aloud
vocalization · voice · talking · speaker · listener · communication · intelligibility · clarity · recognition · perception
soundwave
Traveling pressure disturbance
- frequencyRate of recurrence
- pitchFrequency of sound
- resonanceAmplified oscillation at natural frequency
vibration · formant · spectrogram · waveform · hertz · amplitude · voiceprint · timbre · harmonics · fundamental
- Language Wordsverbal, oral, written, spoken, fluent
- phoneticsvocal folds, consonants, vowels, vibration, fricatives
- CJK writinghanzi, kanji, hiragana, katakana, radicals
- Chinese writinghanzi, characters, character, radical, radicals
- dictionary termsOxford, Merriam-Webster, thesaurus, lexicon, glossary
- surname originspatronymic, matronymic, occupational, locational, descriptive
phoneticsemantic
Of meaning in language
nonphonetic · ideographic · logographic · unphonetic · syntactic
phoneticunphonetic
Spelling defies pronunciation
irregular · opaque · unpredictable · arbitrary · silent
- phonetic alphabetLetter-to-word correspondence system
- phonetic spellingTranscription based on pronunciation
- phonetic adaptationModifying sounds for native speakers
- phonetic systemSymbols for speech sounds
- phonetic symbolsCharacters representing speech sounds
- NATO phonetic alphabetStandardized letter pronunciation system