Lydstruktur
Lydstruktur describes how sounds are organized within a language or broader sound system. The term covers both the physical properties of sounds and the abstract patterns studied in linguistic theory.
In linguistic analysis, lydstruktur is typically divided into segmental structure and suprasegmental structure. Segmental structure concerns
Phonetics studies the articulatory and acoustic realization of sounds, while phonology investigates the systematic organization of
Analytical methods include spectrographic analysis, acoustic measurements of frequency and duration, articulatory descriptions, and cross-linguistic comparison.
Applications include language description and documentation, speech synthesis and recognition, language teaching, and forensic linguistics.
Across languages, phoneme inventories, syllable types, and prosodic systems vary; some languages are tone languages with
The term lydstruktur appears in Norwegian and other Nordic contexts as "sound structure" and is used in
Related topics include phonetics, phonology, prosody, phonotactics and acoustic analysis.