Phonology, phonetics, and prosody

[malekm]

Hi!
How does prosody complement phonology? And why would phonology need phonetics to study a language?

[emsr2d2]

I have no idea. Why don't you tell us what you think?

[malekm]

I'm sorry, did I ask it in the wrong section or something?

[Raymott]

I'm sorry, did I ask it in the wrong section or something?

No. It could possibly have gone under the "linguistics" subforum.
But I think you're being invited to tell us what you know already, to avoid a teacher having to write a detailed essay for you about things you already know.
Is this for an assignment you need to do?

[5jj]

I'm sorry, did I ask it in the wrong section or something?

No Problem. I've moved it to the more appropriate forum suggested by Raymott.

[malekm]

No. It could possibly have gone under the "linguistics" subforum.
But I think you're being invited to tell us what you know already, to avoid a teacher having to write a detailed essay for you about things you already know.
Is this for an assignment you need to do?

It's not an assignment. I just couldn't figure out the relationship between the both. All I could get is that prosody is much wider than phonology and studying a phoneme requires us to know its different meanings, which is why we need prosody.
And we can't study a phoneme if we don't know the different set of sounds.

That's all I get. I'd be grateful if anyone could help me with a better explanation :)

[5jj]

Very crudely:

Phonetics is the study of the neurological bases of speech, the actions and movements of the vocal organs when we speak, the acoustics of the sound waves carrying speech and how speech is received by the ears and interpreted by the brain, I have underlined the part that is of most interest to language teachers.

Phonology is concerned with the sounds made in a particular language. The wallchart of symbols that some English teachers display in their rooms is usually a table of the English phonemes.

Prosody (or suprasegmental phonology) deall with such things as rhythm, stress, pitch and intonation.

[BobK]

And in order to process that information, you should probably work out what you mean by your questions: for example 'And why would phonology need phonetics to study a language?': who's studying and who's needing?

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