Foneettisen

Foneettisen is a term used in linguistics to refer to the field concerned with the physical aspects of speech sounds—their articulation, acoustic properties, and perceptual processing. In practice, foneettisen encompasses both articulatory and acoustic approaches to characterizing how sounds are produced and perceived.

Researchers in foneettisen study segments such as vowels and consonants, prosody, and coarticulation, using tools like spectrographic analysis, waveform measurements, formant tracking, and instrumental techniques (electroglottography, ultrasound tongue imaging, and MRI-based imaging). The field emphasizes quantitative data, replication, and cross-language comparison.

It complements phonology by providing the empirical basis for phonetic descriptions; findings inform speech synthesis, recognition, language teaching, and forensic linguistics.

The term foneettisen is rooted in Finnish linguistic tradition; in Finnish-language scholarship it often denotes the study of phonetics as an empirical discipline.

Related topics include phonetics, acoustic phonetics, articulatory phonetics, phonology, and speech technology.