Any language is a complex and surprising system of communication influence of people at each other. Existence of a similar system is impossible without use of the rules of phonetics unique for each language.
The phonetics is meant as the isolated section of linguistics which main task is studying sounds of the speech and also the principles of sound addition of words. In addition, enter tracking dependence between an oral and written language for finding of interrelations and interdependence problems of phonetics. The phonetics includes a number of sections, the most general of which is the general phonetics, comparative phonetics and historical phonetics.
Any linguistic research in a section of phonetics has to include the following aspects: - Articulation. This aspect is necessary at a research of pronunciation of any given sounds in terms of participation in process of language, lips, a throat, vocal chords and other human bodies. Sometimes the aspect is called anatomo-physiological. - Acoustic. Any sound has the frequency, height, force and duration. For identification of these parameters of a sound the use of the special sound equipment is required.
- Functional. This aspect studies functions of various sounds in language.
As well as any field of science and knowledge, phonetics possesses the methods researches among which: - Introspektion (or introspection); - Palatografirovaniye; - Lingvografirovaniye; - Odontografirovaniye; - Photography; - X-ray; - Filming. The methods stated above most often are applied at a research of articulation aspect of pronunciation of words and sounds. Other methods which use is possible only by means of the specific equipment are characteristic of acoustic aspect: - Ostsillografirovaniye; - Spektrografirovaniye; - Intonografirovaniye. Division of any speech on a syllable, sounds, phrases and offers is characteristic of phonetics. For the pronounced words in terms of phonetics special parameters are allocated: accent, tone and speed.