phonometry
/fə(ʊ)ˈnɒmɪtri/noun
A method of investigating language by the statistical analysis of instrumentally measured speech sounds and informants' responses to the same data.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in American Speech. From phono- + -metry, after German Phonometrie.
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