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,
acoustic phonetics,linguistic phonetics.
Articulatory Features
Refers to the “aspects of
phonetics which looks at how the
sounds of speech are made with
the organs of the vocal tract”
Ogden (2009,pp.173).
Can be seen as divided up into three
areas to describe consonants. These are
voice, place and manner respectively
Examples
Articulatory Phonetics (Production)
For example, the use of your tongue and lips in
producing the words like: moon, stars, flower,
pen, and all other words.
Acoustic Phonetics
(Transmission)
For example, when your mom
calls for you from another room.
The sound waves travel from
another room to yours.
Auditory Phonetics (Perception)
Like, when your teacher
explains a topic in class and you
are able to understand it after
listening to them.
PHONOLOGY
Definition
Phonology is the branch of linguistics
concerned with the study of speech sounds
with reference to their distribution and
patterning.
It looks at and tries to establish
a system of sound distinctions
relevant to a particular language
Suprasegmental Features
A suprasegmental or prosodic feature is a
speech feature that affects a segment longer
than the phoneme, such as accent, intonation,
rhythm, duration, and others.
Examples
The accent
The prosodic or intensity accent is a special force with which we
pronounce a phoneme Vowel of each word. Although it always falls
on a vowel, which is the syllabic nucleus, it affects the whole
syllable, making it stand out among the other syllables of each
word.
The breaks/pauses
The pauses are the more or less long silences that
interrupt the speech and separate some segments from
others. These pauses serve a double function. On the
other hand, it allows us to rest and coordinate breathing
with speech.
The intonation
We can define it as the line melodic of a phrase, result
of the succession of the successive tones of the same
voice during the issuance of that phrase.
Differences
Phonology belongs
to theoretical
Can study one specific
language
Studies different patterns
of sounds in different
languages
Phonetics belong to
descriptive linguistics
Studies the production,
transmission, reception of
sound.