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    There are several branches of phonetics including articulatory phonetics which studies how vocal organs produce speech sounds, acoustic phonetics which examines the physical properties of sounds, and auditory phonetics which looks at how people perceive speech sounds. Phonetics can also be descriptive, comparative, practical/normative, or theoretical depending on the focus and goals.

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    There are several branches of phonetics including articulatory phonetics which studies how vocal organs produce speech sounds, acoustic phonetics which examines the physical properties of sounds, and auditory phonetics which looks at how people perceive speech sounds. Phonetics can also be descriptive, comparative, practical/normative, or theoretical depending on the focus and goals.

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    BRANCHES OF

    PHONETICS
    Articulatory

    Acoustic
    Phonetics
    Auditory

    Functional
    Articulatory phonetics is the study of
    the way the vocal organs are used to
    produce speech sounds.
    Acoustic phonetics is the study of the
    physical properties of speech sounds.
    Auditory phonetics is the study of the
    way people perceive speech sounds, in
    other words, it investigates the hearing
    process.
    The branch of phonetics concerned
    with the study of the functional
    (linguistic) aspect of speech sounds is
    called phonology.
    Descriptive
    General
    Phonetics Historical
    Special
    Comparative phonetics studies the
    correlation between the phonetic
    systems of two or more languages and
    find out the correspondences between
    the speech sounds of kindred
    languages.
    Phonetics

    Practical Theoretical
    Practical, or normative, phonetics
    studies the substance, the material
    form of phonetic phenomena in
    relation to meaning.
    Theoretical phonetics is mainly
    concerned with the functioning of
    phonetic units in language.

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