PHONOLOGY

PHONOLOGY

1. Phonology is exclusively concerned with langue or competence. It deals with the speakers knowledge of the sound and system of language

2. Phonology can be divided into two branches:

   • (1) Segmental phonology
     • It is based on the segmentation of language into individual speech sounds provided by phonetics. It is interested in the function and possible combinations of sounds in the sound system and speech language.
   • (2) Suprasegmental phonology
     • also called prosody, is concerned with those features that cannot be segmented because they extend over more of one segment or sound. Features include stress, rythm and intonation (also called pitch contour or pitch movement):
       • The three phases of phonetics and the different spheres of phonetics and phonology are illustrated by the speech chain:

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