Auditory phonetics is a branch of phonetics concerned with the hearing, acquisition and comprehension of phonetic sounds of words of a language. Phonetics (from the Greek word φωνή, phone = sound/voice) is the study of sounds (voice). ... Hearing, or audition, is one of the traditional five senses, and refers to the ability to detect sound. ... Language acquisition is the process by which language develops in humans. ... Understanding is a psychological state in relation to an object or person whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to be able to deal adequately with that object. ... Within phonetics, a phone is a speech sound or gesture considered as a physical event without regard to its place in the phonology of a language. ...

See also

• Acoustic phonetics
• Hearing (sense)
• Weber-Fechner law
• Auditory illusion
• Psychoacoustics
• Vestibular system

Acoustic phonetics is a subfield of phonetics which deals with acoustic aspects of speech sounds. ... Hearing, or audition, is one of the traditional five senses, and refers to the ability to detect sound. ... The Weber - Fechner law attempts to describe the relationship between the physical magnitudes of stimuli and human perception of the intensity of stimuli. ... An auditory illusion is an illusion of hearing (sense), the sound equivalent of an optical illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or impossible sounds. ... Psychoacoustics is the study of subjective human perception of sounds. ... The vestibular system, or balance system, is the sensory system that provides the dominant input about our movement and orientation in space. ...

External links

• Flash demonstration on hearing (664 KB)

Bibliography

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