Literature can be used 1. Peter Roach "English phonetics and Phonology" Cambridge University Press, 2000, 2nd edition 2. Abduazizov A.A. English Phonetics. Tashkent, 2007. 3. Sokolova M.A. Theoretical Phonetics of English, M. Phoenix 2010, 190p This lecture is dedicated to the theme "Phonetics as a branch of linguistic". The study of phonetics and phonetics as a branch of linguistics has always been one of the