Questions and Answers
What is the main focus of phonetics?
Studying how humans produce and perceive sounds
What is the difference between a phone and a phoneme in phonetics?
A phone is a speech sound in a language, while a phoneme discerns meaning between sounds.
Which sub-discipline of phonetics studies how various movements affect the properties of resulting sound?
Articulatory phonetics
Which aspect of human speech does phonetics NOT deal with?
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What does the communicative modality of a language describe?
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