It is very important to understand what we mean with the terms "Phonetics" and "Phonology". In this exercise, you will have to create THE PERFECT DEFINITION on these terms. This is the way to follow:
1. Read the definitions that I provide in this entry
2. Extend the definitions by means of REWRITING them and ADDING EXTRA INFORMATION
3. It is very important that we follow a chain to do this. That is, the first person to post a comment modifies MY definition. The second person to post a comment modifies the 1st person's definition. The third person to post a comment modifies the 2nd person´s definitions, etc.
That way, we will create a "snow ball" that should lead to the perfect and complete versions of the definitions.
THESE ARE THE STARTING DEFINITIONS:
1. Phonetics is a field of knowledge that studies sounds.
2. Phonology is a field of Linguistics that studies sounds.
Together with your definitions, you must use a list of references (books, articles, web pages) that you have used to add your "snow ball")
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I`ve new definitions for Phonology-Phonetics and Phoneme-Allophone. Phonology is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use. Each language presents its unique set of sounds, these are called phonemes.Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception.
-Articulatory Phonetics. Study the different parts and activities of the vocal tract and the sounds that can be produced there: vowels and consonants.
-Acoustic Phonetics. Study the physical aspects of sounds, how sounds really are…
-Auditory Phonetics. Study how sounds are perceived.
Phonology is a branch of linguistics which studies how sounds work in our brain. This means that when we think about a sound, for example /p/, we think about a neutral sound and the /p/ is just a bilabial and plosive consonant. But actually, when we say the consonant 'p' in a sentence, the 'p' will be modified in accordance with the previous or subsequent sound, so the 'p' can't have a 'pure' sound. This is phonetics, which studies the spoken language.
I don't know if the explanation is very clear, but I think the point is understandable.
Phonology is a field of Linguistics that studies sounds,including especially the history and theory of sound changes in a language or in two or more related languages. Phonology also studies how these sounds work in the human brain. When we think about a sound, for example /p/, we think about a neutral sound and /p/ is just a bilabial and plosive consonant, a graphich representation of the sound /p/, which is a phoneme. Phonology is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language. Every language has its own set of sounds.
Phonetics is a field of knowledge that studies sounds. But is more concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception. It also studies speech sounds combination, description, and representation by written symbols. Back to our example: when we say the sound /p/ in a sentence, 'p' will be modified in accordance with the previous or subsequent sound, so the 'p' can't have a 'pure' sound. Phonetics will establish rules of combination and pronunciation of the sounds of a language.
Phonetics can be divided into three:
-Articulatory Phonetics. Study the different parts and activities of the vocal tract and the sounds that can be produced there: vowels and consonants.
-Acoustic Phonetics. Study the physical aspects of sounds, how sounds really are…
-Auditory Phonetics. Study how sounds are perceived.
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