The scientific study of the speech sounds of a language.

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The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.

Origin: Phono-.

(01 Mar 1998)

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