 Re: A Few Questions on Linguistics
phonetics and phonology are not th e same. phonology us the study of the sreucture and patterning of the sound whike phonetics is how the sound is represented thrugh phonemes. a pgoneme is the underlying representation of the sound, how it is represented symbolicalltm while allophones are the variations of the sound. sometimes there is more than one representation to the phoneme. like /s/ /z/ are allophones of the same sound. i hope i helped you a bit |