THE PLACE OF PHONETICS IN THE SYSTEM OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCES, The role of phonetics in linguistics, Main branches of phonetics, Connections between phonetics and other linguistic sciences, Practical importance of phonetics, Pronunciation and articulation of speech sounds, Transmission of sounds through acoustic waves, Perception of sounds by human auditory organs, Articulatory phonetics, Acoustic phonetics, Auditory phonetics, Experimental phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, syntax, Stylistics, lexicology, Sociolinguistics.