phoneticians
Speech sound experts
Phoneticians are specialists who study the sounds of human speech—how they're produced by the mouth and throat, how they travel as sound waves, and how they're perceived by listeners.
The field sits at the intersection of linguistics, physics, and anatomy.
The phoneticians recorded speakers from twelve different dialects.
Frequency-over-time display
- formantSpectral concentration in speech
- frequencyRate of recurrence
- amplitudeMaximum oscillation displacement
- waveformGraphed oscillation pattern
pitch · resonance · harmonics · duration · intensity · Hz · filtering
Positional sound variants
- vowelsLetters with unblocked airflow
- consonantsLetters that aren't vowels
- diphthongsCombined vowel sounds
- syllablesUnits of pronunciation
segments · transcription · IPA · elision · assimilation
Pitch variation in speech
- stressPressure, mental or vocal
- toneQuality of sound
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- prominenceNotable status or visibility
phrase · utterance · timing · mora · foot · contour · uptalk · focus
Oral muscle for taste
- palateOral cavity ceiling
- larynxSpeech-producing throat organ
- glottisVocal cord opening
- velumMuscular mouth membrane
alveolar · velar · bilabial · uvular · pharyngeal · voicing · aspiration · nasality
Research conducted on location
- corpusAssembled written works
- elicitationDrawing forth information
- documentationWritten proof or instructions
- dialectologyStudy of regional speech differences
spectrogram
Frequency-over-time display
- formantSpectral concentration in speech
- frequencyRate of recurrence
- amplitudeMaximum oscillation displacement
waveform · pitch · resonance · harmonics · duration · intensity · Hz · filtering
allophones
Positional sound variants
- vowelsLetters with unblocked airflow
- consonantsLetters that aren't vowels
- diphthongsCombined vowel sounds
syllables · segments · transcription · IPA · elision · assimilation
intonation
Pitch variation in speech
prominence · phrase · utterance · timing · mora · foot · contour · uptalk · focus
tongue
Oral muscle for taste
velum · alveolar · velar · bilabial · uvular · pharyngeal · voicing · aspiration · nasality · plosive
fieldwork
Research conducted on location
- corpusAssembled written works
- elicitationDrawing forth information
- documentationWritten proof or instructions
- Language ShapersNoah Webster, simplifiers, orthographers, Sequoyah, lexicographers
- word loverslogophile, logophiles, word nerd, word nerds, wordsmith
- philologistsphilologists, linguists, grammarians, etymologists, classicists
phoneticiansgrammarians
Scholars of language rules
morphologists · lexicographers · orthographers · etymologists · sociolinguists