Introduction to Phonetics

Phonetics: the study of phones; the study of human speech sounds; phonemics is the study of phones as they act in a particular language. [研究語音的學問；研究人類語音的學問；phonemics是研究某一特定語言的語音的學問]

German is largely a phonetic language. The phonetic representation of a word shows you how to pronounce it. On the other hand, each form has its own unique onset and rime, which means that no form benefits from phonetic consistency. Thus, the same phoneti

Phonetics, on the other hand, is simply the physiological and acoustic study of speech sounds, covering all sounds used in all languages, and relying only on the physical and physiological characteristics of the sounds, without regard to their systemic pa

Phonemic deals with the abstract representation of sounds in a language, focusing on phonemes, while phonetic deals with the physical production and perception of sounds, focusing on phones.

Phonetic and phonemic transcriptions are two ways linguists and language learners represent speech sounds in writing. While they may seem similar at first glance, they serve distinct purposes and capture different aspects of spoken language.

Phonetic is about the detailed and concrete production of sounds, capturing all their nuances, while phonemic deals with the abstract and functional aspects of sound in a specific language context, focusing on their role in distinguishing meaning.

音位 （英語： phoneme）是一種 語言 中能夠區別 詞 之間意義的最小 語音 單位 [1][2][3]，其最重要的特性是它與該語音系統中的其他音位相對立，也是該特定語言的語音系統中最小對立單位。