Applying phonetics

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  • Applying phonetics
    • Commercial applications
      • SOUND SYMBOLISM in advertising
        • Phonetics are applied to advertising and marketing
          • Research suggests that initial plosives like /K/ /P/ /G/ are effective for brand recall.
            • Softer sounds (approximants/ nasal consonants) may be associated with delicacy.
            • Harder plosives associated with the durable   characteristic of a product.
        • Sounds have potential to carry meaning in and of themselves. Onomatopeia is an example of this e.g. snap, crackle and pop.
    • Clinical applications
      • Speech and language therapy
        • SLT's use phonetic knowledge to diagnose and treat speech disorders. They make judgements about a client's ability to produce.
    • Forensic applications
      • Criminal proceedings
        • Speech content analysis- establishing what is being said in a recording
      • Forensic speaker comparison
        • Involves analysing acoustic properties of speech using either human or automated analysis.
          • Phonetic features for analysis might include: voice quality, intonation patterns and pitch.
        • 2 recordings are compared according to phonetic features and a measure of similarity is calculated.
    • Regional and social variations
    • Pedagogical application
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