Phonetics vs. Phonemics — What's the Difference?

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Phoneticians—linguists who specialize in phonetics—study the physical properties of speech.

The study and establishment of the phonemes of a language.

The branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols.

(linguistics) The study of phonemes and their written representations.

The system of sounds of a particular language.

The study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes

(linguistics) The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.

The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.

The art of representing vocal sounds by signs and written characters.

The branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis