Example sentences for: phonetics

How can you use “phonetics” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • From the cover: Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, this book offers a thorough account of topics covered in courses in phonetics and phonology.

  • It goes without saying that most of those drawn to lexicography, like those attracted to art schools, exhibit skills more likely to be associated with craft than with art; these days, far too few of those who work on dictionaries have a thorough grounding in literature, let alone the various specialties within linguistics—general and comparative studies, classical and modern foreign language study, phonetics, philology, etymology, to say nothing of lexicology and lexicography.

  • Many years ago, Cabell Greet, professor at Columbia University and widely recognized authority on phonetics, was consultant to CBS (as I recall) on pronunciations.

  • I agree with Wilson's comments almost entirely, but he fails to criticize severely enough those who say i.e. and e.g. (rather than confine their use solely to writing), and, in general, he seems to avoid condemning poor style; also, the pronunciation system he employs may be a little crude for this sort of book, being derived from the Moo Goo Gai Pan school of phonetics.

  • But this is not a book of descriptive phonetics; it is for the learner who aspires to speak the “best’ English he can, and the selection of these two dialects would be hard to fault.


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