äännekategoriat
Äännekategoriat refers to the classification of speech sounds, or phonemes, within a language. This categorization is fundamental to phonetics and phonology, the study of speech sounds and their organization. Sounds are typically grouped based on shared articulatory or acoustic properties.
Articulatory phonetics, for instance, categorizes sounds based on how they are produced in the vocal tract.
Acoustic phonetics classifies sounds based on their physical properties, such as frequency, amplitude, and duration. This
Phonological categorization focuses on how sounds function within a specific language's system, distinguishing meaning. For example,