Phonetic & Phonology

PHONOLOGY

Phonology is the study of the sound systems of a language, which sounds may ocurr in which position in a word syllable, mora, etc. It also exqmines transformating that occur in words from case inflection tense and other linguistic factors.

PHONETIC

Phonetics is the study of the nature of sound itself, in relation to human language.

Articulatory phonetics studies the physical aspects of the airflow and vocal tract in producing sounds. Acoustic phonetics studies the properties of the waveforms produced in human speech.

The classic generative model of linguistics provides a straightforward view of the relationship between phonetics and phonology. According to Chomsky and Halle phonological representations, seen as classificatory feature bundles, are converted by phonological rules into a phonetic representation in which features take on scalar values. Crucially, the “total set" of features is identical with the set of phonetic properties that can in principle be controlled in speech; they represent the phonetic capabilities of man, and are therefore the same for all languages.
An abundance of such language-especific findings led to the development of more sophisticated models of the relationship between phonetics and phonology.

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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