Talk:Auditory phonetics

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This article is not really about auditory phonetics. More about phonics & learning how to read. - ishwar (SPEAK) 06:03, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)

Do you mean that it should be expanded to cover auditory phonetics? Or that it should be renamed? --Theo (Talk) 08:31, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

some of this material should be moved to some educational article, like phonics or some such topic. the article greatly needs expansion. it should probably start off with something about the auditory system and how this works in language. other things include the following:

• phon
• loudness (as distinct from sound intensity)
• etc., etc.

auditory phonetics has to do with hearing linguistic sounds, not learning them. at any rate, what is currently here about phonics is somewhat misleading in that you dont have to teach young children sounds (they do this automatically), you have to teach them that the alphabetic symbols represent linguistic sounds. this kind of reads like an educator who is probably well-read in education but not so much in linguistics/phonetics. (i am not trying offend anyone here: many educators just dont have time to do a lot of delving into linguistics). peace. — ishwar  (SPEAK) 09:51, 2005 Jun 3 (UTC)

You seem knowledgable. Can you fix it? --Theo (Talk) 09:56, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Ok. maybe at some later date. peace — ishwar  (SPEAK) 18:20, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)

[edit] Grasp

In the Lead, is the parenthetical explanation ("grasp") conveying some jargon (in which case, that should be explained) or is it a redundant synonym that should be deleted? --Theo (Talk) 08:31, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

i dont know if grasp is anything but just a metaphor. maybe a kind of popular educational catch-phrase? comprehension seems clearer to me (but, as i said above, this really doesnt belong here anyway...). — ishwar  (SPEAK) 09:56, 2005 Jun 3 (UTC)