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Phonetics

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

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Acoustics 76% connected

The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws.

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Phonetic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use.

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Phonetic 74% connected

Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use.

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Phonetician 74% connected

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

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Phonetician 74% connected

One versed in phonetics; a phonetist.

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Linguistics 84% connected

The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.

linguistics essentials 25% interchangeable

The study of physical speech sounds.

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Morphology noun · 81% connection

That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their vari…

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Phonology noun · 81% connection

The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modificatio…

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Pragmatics noun · 81% connection

The study of what speakers mean in real situations, beyond the literal words.

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Semantics noun · 81% connection

The study of meaning in language.

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sociolinguistics noun · 81% connection

The study of how language varies across social groups and situations.

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Syntax noun · 81% connection

Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism.

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Aetiology noun · 78% connection

The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and…

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Anthropomorphist noun · 78% connection

One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human.

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Anthropomorphite noun · 78% connection

One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of anci…

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Articulate verb · 78% connection

To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.

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Benthamism noun · 78% connection

That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and dete…

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Chattering noun · 78% connection

The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the…

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Chrematistics noun · 78% connection

The science of wealth; the science, or a branch of the science, of political economy.

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Diacoustic adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to the science or doctrine of refracted sounds.

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Dissonance noun · 78% connection

A mingling of discordant sounds; an inharmonious combination of sounds; discord.

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Ethics noun · 78% connection

The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting d…

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Falsetto noun · 78% connection

A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head vo…

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Gyve verb · 78% connection

To fetter; to shackle; to chain. H () the eighth letter of the English alphabet, is classed among the consonants, and is formed with t…

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Harmonics noun · 78% connection

The doctrine or science of musical sounds.

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Human adjective · 78% connection

Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human v…

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Language noun · 78% connection

Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of…

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Logic noun · 78% connection

The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking…

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Metaphysics noun · 78% connection

The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with reference to its abstract and u…

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Music noun · 78% connection

The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibra…

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