Phones

Recently I've been interested in accent. Its facinating that in the space of as little as a mile or so we have different accents. Because I'm from the northern part of Ireland, and have lived in Dublin in the east, Cork in the south and now Limerick in the west, my own accent is a blurr, I'm a parrot picking up quirks from the people around me.
Acoustic phonetics is concerned with acoustics of speech: The properties of the sound waves, such as their frequency and harmonics.

This video is amusing but it gets a point across...



A little more serious....