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'''Phonaesthetics''' (from the Greek: φωνή, phōnē, "[[voice]]-[[sound]]"; and αἰσθητική, aisthētikē, "[[aesthetics]]") is the claim or [[study]] of inherent pleasantness or [[beauty]] (euphony) or unpleasantness ('''cacophony''') of the sound of certain linguistic utterances. Poetry is considered euphonic, as is well-crafted literary prose. Important phonaesthetic devices of poetry are [[rhyme]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assonance assonance] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration alliteration]. Closely related to euphony and cacophony is the [[concept]] of consonance and dissonance.
'''Phonaesthetics''' (from the Greek: φωνή, phōnē, "[[voice]]-[[sound]]"; and αἰσθητική, aisthētikē, "[[aesthetics]]") is the claim or [[study]] of inherent pleasantness or [[beauty]] (euphony) or unpleasantness ('''cacophony''') of the sound of certain linguistic utterances. Poetry is considered euphonic, as is well-crafted literary prose. Important phonaesthetic devices of poetry are [[rhyme]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assonance assonance] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliteration alliteration]. Closely related to euphony and cacophony is the [[concept]] of consonance and dissonance.
The phrase [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellar_door cellar door] has some notoriety as the reputedly most euphonic sound combination of the [[English]] [[language]] (specifically, when spoken with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_accent British accent]).
From this [[meaning]] should be distinguished the closely related but different [[concept]] of phonaesthesia, which does not refer directly to [[aesthetic]] attributes of [[sound]], but to phonetic elements that are inherently associated with a semantic [[meaning]]. The term was introduced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Firth J. R. Firth] in 1930 "The phonæsthetic habits [...] and are of general importance in speech." Firth defined a phonaestheme as "a phoneme or cluster of phonemes [[shared]] by a [[group]] of [[words]] which also have in common some element of [[meaning]] or [[function]], though the [[words]] may be etymologically unrelated."
From this [[meaning]] should be distinguished the closely related but different [[concept]] of phonaesthesia, which does not refer directly to [[aesthetic]] attributes of [[sound]], but to phonetic elements that are inherently associated with a semantic [[meaning]]. The term was introduced by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Firth J. R. Firth] in 1930 "The phonæsthetic habits [...] and are of general importance in speech." Firth defined a phonaestheme as "a phoneme or cluster of phonemes [[shared]] by a [[group]] of [[words]] which also have in common some element of [[meaning]] or [[function]], though the [[words]] may be etymologically unrelated."
