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Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies the sounds of human speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds or signs (phones): their physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory perception, and neurophysiological status.



Phonetics as a research discipline has three main branches



Articulatory phonetics: the articulation of speech

Acoustic phonetics: the acoustics of speech

Auditory phonetics: the perception of speech

Phonetic insight is used in several applied linguistic fields such as



Forensic phonetics: the use of phonetics for legal purposes

Speech recognition: the analysis and transcription of recorded speech by a computer system

Speech synthesis: the production of human speech by a computer system

Phonology, on the other hand, is concerned with the abstract, grammatical characterization of systems of sounds or signs and how they pattern in and across languages. Phonology has been argued to relate to phonetics via the set of distinctive features, which map the abstract representations of speech units to articulatory gestures, acoustic signals or perceptual representations