In March 2016, the section ‘Phonetics’ comprises two sub-sections: • ‘Phonetics’ (headed by Prof. Pavel Anatolyevich Skrelin) with a particular focus on general, specific, and applied phonetics: segment phonetics and phonology; prosody; orthoepy; methods of phonetic analysis; phonetics and digital processing of speech; perceptive phonetics; interference of phonetic systems; how to teach pronunciation, e-learning of pronunciation and testing; speech technology. • ‘Phonosemantics’ (headed by Prof. Olga Igorevna Brodovich) with a particular focus on phonosemantic motivation of a language unit, as approached by Petersburg phonosemantic school overarching various methods to description and analysis of formation of a word from sounds associated with what it is named: etymological, psycholinguistic, experimental, phonosemantic analysis of literary text.