Description

Phononomics: The Law of Sound reveals how voice, resonance, and utterance are governed by lawful order. From phōnē (Greek: “voice, sound, utterance”) and nomos (Greek: “law, order, arrangement”), Phononomics shows that sound becomes meaningful only when named, spelled, and arranged. Graphemes inscribe phonemes into permanence, phonemes voice letters into recognition, and orthography preserves continuity of pronunciation across generations.

This work explores how phonemes form the atomic units of speech, how variation in sound (allophones, accents, dialects) is stabilized by spelling, and how multiplicity of voices is reconciled by etymology. Applications span linguistics, music, law, and technology: from the phonetic systems that map languages, to notation and rhythm in music, to transcription of speech in governance, and to modern voice-recognition systems. Phononomics demonstrates that sound, like language, is lawful and recursive—letters spell sounds, sounds spell words, and words spell discourse. The audible world is stabilized through the law of phonē.