From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishphoneticspho‧net‧ics /fəˈnetɪks/ noun [uncountable] SLthe science and study of speech sounds —phonetician /ˌfəʊnəˈtɪʃən, ˌfɒn- $ ˌfoʊ-/ noun [countable]GRAMMAR: Singular or plural verb?Phonetics is followed by a singular verb: Phonetics is a branch of linguistics.
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phonetics• Moreover, we must not forget that the 895 phonetics identified by Soothill have an independent existence.• Research facilities include computing systems, a phonetics laboratory, and several major libraries.• A knowledge of these 895 will, obviously, include the 660 that occur as independent phonetics.• Nabokov was wrong - rather surprising, this - about the phonetics of the name Lolita.• As reading down the columns shows, the meanings of the phonetics, on the other hand, do not.• Virginal Vera, besotted with phonetics. 