Phonetics & Its Branches
The term “Phonetics” derived from the Greek word “Phone”(sound).
It studies the mechanism of production, transmission and reception of sounds.
Main Branches of Phonetics
1. Articulatory Phonetics
2. Acoustic Phonetics
3. Auditory Phonetics
Articulatory Phonetics
It deals with the production of different sounds with the help of speech organs and the vocal cords.
It includes the production, description and classification of speech sound.
Acoustic Phonetics
Transmission of sound is known as acoustic phonetics
It studies the sound waves and the physical ways in which the sounds are transmitted from one person to another.
Auditory Phonetics
It studies the mechanism of perception of sounds and how they are received by the listeners.
It is the study of the mechanism of the ear.
Phonology
The term Phonology is derived from the Greek language, which means sound/voice.
Phonology is the organization of sounds into patters (Bloomfield, 1995).
It studies the sounds of language.
It deals with phonemes (basic sounds), supra-segmental elements (stress patterns, tones, intonation) of language.
The phonological components also cover rules that regulate how to combine morphemes for making words.
Difference between Phonetics & Phonology
Phonetics studies sounds of all languages of the world.
Phonology studies only particular sounds of a specific language.
Phonetics is general, because it concerns with the speech sounds without reference to their function in a particular language.
In contrast, the phonology is specific and functional in nature, because it is concerned with working or functioning of speech sounds in a language.
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