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1841 R. G. Latham Eng. Lang. ii. ii. 113 Phonetics..determines (amongst other things) the systematic relation of Articulate Sounds... Between sounds like b and v, s and z, there is a connexion in Phonetics.

1873 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) i. 139 Provincial phonetics go still further, and call a gown gownd.

1924 O. Jespersen Philos. Gram. ii. 35 It would, perhaps, be advisable to restrict the word ‘phonetics’ to universal or general phonetics and to use the word phonology of the phenomena peculiar to a particular language.

1937 J. Orr tr. I. Iordan Introd. Romance Linguistics 287 Generally, ‘phonetics’ is used to designate the physiology of sounds, and ‘phonology’ the history of sounds.

1953 J. B. Carroll Study of Lang. ii. 25 General phonetics, in fact, is virtually a science in its own right.

1962 A. C. Gimson Introd. Pronunc. Eng. i. i. 2 Our primary concern will be the production, transmission, and reception of the sounds of English—in other words, the phonetics of English.

1970 G. C. Lepschy Survey Struct. Ling. iii. 59 Trubeckoj mentions a number of linguists who preceded him..in distinguishing between sound and phoneme, and thus between phonetics and phonology.

1999 M. Syal Life isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee (2000) ii. 85 A couple of cuteys doing languages, and the shy, plump South Indian doing research in phonetics.