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What is Phonetics?• Phonetics (from

the Greek word phone = sound/voice) is the study of speech sounds (voice).

• It is concerned with the actual nature of the sounds and their production.

• Phonology, which operates at the level of sound systems and linguistic units (such as phonemes and distinctive features). 

Dipthong• In phonology, a diphthong,

(also gliding vowel) • Literally "two sounds" or "two

tones") refers to two adjacent vowel sounds occurring within the same syllable. 

• Ex: [sounds] eye, oy, air

Focus Sounds• p / f• th • b / v• j / y• s / z