BS in General and Applied Phonetics

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies the sounds of human speech, or in the case of sign languages the equivalent aspects of sign.[1] It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds or signs (phones): their physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory perception, and neurophysiological status. Phonology, on the other hand, is concerned with the abstract, grammatical characterization of systems of sounds or signs