Sam Palladio

I trained as a classical actor in London for three years. We did Tennessee Williams and dialect and accent classes; they were one of my favorite things to do each week. And we'd strip it down to the phonetics and listen to the sound. It was a really interesting way to look at it all.

British Actor

Adelaide Kane

I learned by watching my favorite shows. I would just rewind and say the words back, until they sounded right to me. I never studied the American accent, in terms of getting a teacher or taking phonetics classes. I've always been a good mimic. It really wasn't that hard for me.

Australian Actress

Brendan Gleeson

I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.

Irish Actor

Eliza Coupe

In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.

American Actress

Ferdinand de Saussure

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

Swiss Educator

Roman Jakobson

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

Russian Scientist

Julie Andrews

Who would have thought that a story about a professor of phonetics would result in it being probably one of the great shows ever for musical theatre? It's a seemingly odd subject.

English Actress

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

Lisa See

I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.

American Writer

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

Helps distinguish subtle sound differences between similar words to improve pronunciation and understanding.

Language Sounds

Not all phonetic alphabets are the same; different languages use different symbols for their sounds.

Alphabet Variations

Phonetic symbols may represent sounds not available as regular letters in your language.

Sound Representation

It simplifies learning by providing a direct relationship between letters and sounds.

Spelling Simplification

Phonetic spelling can assist beginners in reading by reducing confusion about letter sounds.

Reading Aid

It's useful for clear communication, especially in professions that require precise pronunciation, like teaching.

Clear Communication

 received unconsciously I'm talking about our body language our vocal patterns our pronouns we aren't conscious of this stuff but it has a huge influence on how we impact an audience what's exciting and new here is we can use technology like natural language processing phonetic analysis and facial and gesture

How visionary leaders...

 because it lets me see the world through that window. It lets me connect with my family, my ancestors, my community, my culture. And lets me think about how I can pass that on to future generations. As a linguist, I'm interested in how language functions generally. I can look at phonetics and phonology --

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