Phonetics

Speech sound involves a three-part process—production, transmission and perception—studied in phonetics. It begins with articulatory production(lungs, vocal cords, mouth), travels through the air as acoustic waves, and is finally received and interpreted by the listener’s ear and brain(auditory perception).

Branches of phonetics align with this process as follows:

• Articulatory Phonetics → production
• Acoustic phonetics → transmission
• Auditory phonetics → perception