different between phonology vs phonetic

English

Etymology

From phono- +? -logy.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f??n?l?d?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /f??n?l?d?i/

Noun

phonology (countable and uncountable, plural phonologies)

1. (linguistics, uncountable) The study of the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, accent, intonation, and which sounds are distinctive units within a language.
2. (linguistics, countable) The way sounds function within a given language; a phonological system.
   • 1856, Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, Mission Press, page 16:

     The Achean, the ancient Malayu and other mixed phonologies possessing a considerable degree of harshness, were thus formed.

   • 1997, Jacek Fisiak, Trends in Linguistics: Studies in Middle English Linguistics ?ISBN, Walter de Gruyter, page 545:

     Crucially, the neat separateness of phonologies which my account seems to imply is an abstraction and does not mean that the phonologies represented different regional or social dialects.

   • 2005, Charles W. Kreidler, Phonology, page 219:

     Thus, underlying ‘agtus’ was converted first into ‘?gtus’ by the vowel lengthening rule, and then into ‘?ktus’ by the ancient persistent rule. This example has previously been interpreted as indicating that new rules can enter a phonology elsewhere than at depth I.

Synonyms

• (study of pronunciation): orthoepy, soundlore

Hypernyms

• linguistics, phonetics

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See also

• tonology

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ph?n?ticus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (ph?n?tikós).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??n?t?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /f??n?t?k/, [f??n???k]
• Hyphenation: pho?net?ic

Adjective

phonetic (not comparable)

1. Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
2. (linguistics) Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes)

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Noun

phonetic (plural phonetics)

1. (linguistics) In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its pronunciation; contrasted with semantic (which is usually the radical).

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