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Phonetics and Phonology: Maam Mehak Munawer HOD Language and Literature Hajvery University (HU)

Phonetics is the scientific study of human speech sounds, how they are produced, transmitted, and received. It has three branches: articulatory phonetics studies sound production, auditory phonetics studies sound perception, and acoustic phonetics studies sound transmission. Phonology is the study of how sounds are organized and structured in a language to convey meaning. It focuses on the phonemes, or units of sound, that make up the sound system of a particular language. The difference is that phonetics studies sounds in general, while phonology studies how sounds are structured in specific languages.

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Phonetics and Phonology: Maam Mehak Munawer HOD Language and Literature Hajvery University (HU)

Phonetics is the scientific study of human speech sounds, how they are produced, transmitted, and received. It has three branches: articulatory phonetics studies sound production, auditory phonetics studies sound perception, and acoustic phonetics studies sound transmission. Phonology is the study of how sounds are organized and structured in a language to convey meaning. It focuses on the phonemes, or units of sound, that make up the sound system of a particular language. The difference is that phonetics studies sounds in general, while phonology studies how sounds are structured in specific languages.

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Phonetics and Phonology

Maam Mehak Munawer


HOD Language and Literature
Hajvery University (HU)
What is Phonetics and Phonology?

• Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies the sounds of human


speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign.
It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds or signs: their
physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory perception, and
neurophysiological status.

• Phonology is a branch of linguistics concerned with the systematic


organization of sounds in spoken languages and signs in sign languages. It
used to be only the study of the systems of phonemes in spoken languages
(and therefore used to be also called phonemics, or phonematics), but it
may also cover any linguistic analysis either at a level beneath the word
(including syllable, onset and rime, articulatory gestures, articulatory
features, mora, etc.) or at all levels of language where sound or signs are
structured to convey linguistic meaning.
Phonetics

• The word “ Phone” means sound and “tics”


means scientific or systematic study of
something.
• So we can say that Phonetics means scientific
or systematic study of human speech sounds.
• Phonetics is general study of all human speech
sounds and how they are produced, transmitted
and received.
Branches of Phonetics
The study of phonetics can be divided into three
main branches.
1. Articulatory Phonetics(How sounds are
produced?)
2. Auditory Phonetics(How sounds are
received?)
3. Acoustic Phonetics(How sounds are
transmitted?)
Articulatory Phonetics
•  It is concerned with the positions and
movements of the lips, tongue, and other
speech organs in producing speech.

• It analyses how the various speech sounds are


articulated by vocal organs.
Auditory Phonetics
• Auditory Phonetics is the study of hearing and
the perception of speech sounds.
• How Humans Perceive sounds?
• It investigates the Hearing Process.
• What is heard is phonologically analysed and
to enhance the already existing school of
knowledge of the functioning of the human
brain, nerves and ears
Acoustic Phonetics
• This branch of phonetics is concerned with the
properties of sound waves.

• It studies the physical properties of speech


sounds as transmitted between the mouth
and ear. Some properties like
intensity(loudness), Frequency(or pitch),
quality,
• To explain why certain sounds are confused or
to describe the sounds such as vowels that
are difficult to define in terms of articulatory
movements.
Phonology
• Phonology is a broader study of major speech
sounds and their organization in a particular
language.
• Phonology is the study of the sound system of
particulars human languages, include dialects
and other language varieties.
Difference Between Phonetics &
Phonology
• The difference between Phonetics &
Phonology is that of generality and
particularity.

• Phonetics Phonetics deals with production,


transmission and reception of all human
speech sounds in general with no particular
reference to any one language.
• Phonology Phonology deals with the ways
those sounds are organized in a particular
language. It is sub- category of phonetics.
Why the study of Phonetics is
important? 
• A knowledge of Phonetics is a must for a
learner of the English language.

• This knowledge enables him/her:

• 1. To give a true description of sounds of


English and how they are made.
• 2. To point out the mistakes in leaner’s
pronunciation and help them learn the correct
form.

• 3. To differentiate sounds of English from


those of the mother tongue.
Phonemes 
•  phoneme is a unit of sound in speech. A
phoneme doesn't have any inherent meaning
by itself, but when you put phonemes
together, they can make words.

• Think of when adults try to get a baby to say


his or her first word..
• They often coax him or her to sound out the
beginning of a word by repeating that sound,
or phoneme, over and over by saying
something like, 'M, m, m' for 'Mommy.'

• The 'm' sound, often written as /m/, is an


example of a phoneme

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