Phonology

PHONOLOGY

WHAT IS?

PHONETICS VS. PHONOLOGY

The study of how sounds are organized and used in natural languages.

Analyzes the production of all human speech sounds, regardless of language.

Analyzes the sound patterns of a particular language by determining which phonetic sounds are significant.

WHAT IS A PHONEME?

A phoneme is the smallest contrastive unit in the sound system of a language.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PHONE AND PHONEME

* Pronounced in a defined way.

* The smallest identifiable unit found in a stream of speech.

* Represented between brackets by convention.

EX. [b], [j], [o]

* Pronounced in one or more ways, depending on the numbers of allophones.

* A minimal unit that serves to distinguish between meanings of words.

* Represented between slashes by convention.

EX. /b/, /j/, /o/