Difference Between Phonetics and Phonology

Difference Between Phonetics and Phonology |
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In phonetics, we discuss physical production of speech sounds. |
In phonology, we study concepts of sounds of a language and focuses on the organization of sounds by studying speech patterns |
Phonetics simply describes the articulatory, auditory, and acoustic properties of speech sounds. |
Phonology studies how speech sounds combine and how they change in combination, as well as sounds change in a word, can contrast to produce the difference in meaning |
Phonetics comes under descriptive linguistics |
Phonology comes under theoretical linguistics |
Phonetics studies the production, transmission, and reception of sounds |
Phonology studies different patterns of sounds in different languages |
Phonetics is physics of sound |
Phonology is psychology of sound |
Phonetics does not deal with one particular language but all sounds in general |
In phonology, We study sounds of a specific language |
Phonetical units are called phones
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Phonological units are called phonemes |
Phonetic symbols are enclosed in square brackets as [f], [m], etc. |
Phonemic symbols are enclosed in slash marks as /f/, /m/, etc. |
It studies how many speech sounds a language has. |
It deals with the system and pattern of speech sounds in a language |
Sounds can be divided into consonants and vowels |
Can be characterized according to place, manner of articulation, and voice (voiceless or voiced) |
Phonetics describes the way sounds are spoken and interpreted by the native speaker |
Phonology describes the way sounds functions in a language |
Phonetics differentiates sound of a letter(e.g. [m]) among different words like mango, alms, jam etc. |
Phonology differentiate different phonemes and how meaning changes in change of a phoneme |
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Phonetics describes the production of all human speech sounds regardless of any specific language |
It is the study of how a specific language sounds are organized and used |
Phonetics simply describes the articulatory, auditory, and acoustic properties of speech sounds |
Phonology studies how speech sounds combine and how they change in combination, as well as sounds change in a word, can contrast to produce the difference in meaning |
It has three branches 1. Acoustic phonetics 2. Auditory phonetics 3. Articulatory phonetics
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It has three branches 1. Segmental Phonology 2. Supra-segmental phonology |
It deals with a large number of speech sounds. |
It deals with a limited number of speech sounds |
Phonetical units may not form contrastively
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Phonological units are formed contrastively. |