...INTRODUCTION TO PHONETICS...

TASK # 1

1. For SIL International Phonetics is the study of human speech sounds.(http://www.sil.org/linguistics/glosary of linguistic terms/WhatIsPhonetics.htm)

2. For British Association of Academis Phoneticians, Phonetics is the systematic study of speech and the sounds of language. Tradicionallt phoneticiand rely on careful listening and observation in order to describe speech sounds. In doing this, a phonetician refers to a classificatory framework for speech sounds which is based on how they are made and on aspects of the auditory impression they make. (http://www.baap.uk.phonetics.htm)

3. For Richard Norquist Phonetics is the branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols. (http://grammar.about.comold, )

4. I understand that phonetics is the process where is encharge of human speech and all the sounds we produce but also graphic representations of those sounds.