PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY

 What is phonology? Phonology is the study of the patterns of sounds in a language and across languages. Put more formally, phonology is the study of the categorical organisation of speech sounds in languages; how speech sounds are organised in the mind and used to convey meaning. In this section of the website, we will describe the most common phonological processes and introduce the concepts of underlying representations for sounds versus what is actually produced, the surface form. Phonology can be related to many linguistic disciplines, including psycholinguistics, cognitive science, sociolinguistics and language acquisition. Principles of phonology can also be applied to treatments of speech pathologies and innovations in technology. In terms of speech recognition, systems can be designed to translate spoken data into text. In this way, computers process the language like our brains do. The same processes that occur in the mind of a human when producing and receiving language occu

 What is phonetics? Phonetics , the study of  speech  sounds and their physiological production and  acoustic  qualities. It deals with the configurations of the vocal tract used to produce speech sounds (articulatory phonetics), the acoustic properties of speech sounds (acoustic phonetics), and the manner of combining sounds so as to make  syllables, words, and sentences (linguistic phonetics).   Articulatory phonetics The traditional method of describing speech sounds is in terms of the movements of the vocal organs that produce them. The main structures that are important in the production of speech are the lungs and the  respiratory system , together with the vocal organs shown in  Figure 1 . The airstream from the lungs passes between the  vocal cords , which are two small muscular folds located in the larynx at the top of the windpipe. The space between the vocal cords is known as the  glottis . If the vocal cords are apart, as they are normally when breathing out, the air from t

WHAT ARE THEY? THIS BLOG IS TO LEARN THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY