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A-Z 893phonetic actIn J.L.Austin’s speech act theory, the partial speech act that consists in the production oflanguage sounds or complex sound forms. Together with the phatic act and the rheticact, the phonetic act constitutes the locutionary act (locution).speech act theoryReferencesphonetic relationship (also phoneticsimilarity)Characteristic of sound variants that belong to one and the same phoneme. The phoneticrelationship cannot be defined exactly operationally; rather, in many cases it requiresintuition or is independent of differences in the language used to describe the sounds. Aphonetic relationship in complementary distribution is, as a rule, a criterion forconsidering two sound variants as belonging to one and the same phoneme.phonologyReferences