The Distinction Between Phonetics and Phonology (3)
According to Andrew Spencer in his book "Phonology": "phonology is the study of the sounds used in languages: the way they pattern with respect to each other, the way they are use to make up words and phrases, and the changes they undergo"Phonetics is essentially the study of the physicaal aspects of speech. This means the physiological bases of speech. Thus, phonetics research might investigate the collection of frequencies of sounds observed in the production of particular types of vowels, or it might examine the precise movements of the tongue in producing the sound 's', for example.
Phonology is not specifically concerned with aspects of speech production or perception which are purely the result of the physical proerties of the system. For instance, it is often said that the articulation of the 'k' sounds in the words 'cara' and a'key' differ from each other slightly. In the 'k' of 'key' the tongue is brought slightly towards the front of the mouth in comparison with the 'k' sound in 'car'. The reason for this is that the 'ey' vowel of 'key' drags the tongue foward slightly, because of that aavowel is produced with the tongue slightly further foward in the mouth than the 'a' vowel of 'car'. In fact, it is more or less impossible to pronounce a clear and pure 'ey' type vowel immediately after the kind of 'k' sound found in 'car'. In other words, ait would appear that some degree of fronting in these circumstances is physiologically inevitable.
Thus, we can distinguish the word 'cane' and 'gain' by choosing as the first consonant either 'k' or 'g'. However, not all languages do this, and in some the speaker may even have a free choice as to which sound to use. To this extent, we can say that this different is purely aphonetics fact of no immediate phonological interest, in the sense that phonological theory doesn't need to have any special account of it.
To conclude, work in phonetics canaa, accordingly, be classified into two board types: (a) general studies of the articulation, acoustic, or perception of speech, and (b) studies of the phonetic properties of specific languages. Later on, in contrast to it, phonology studies the scientific material aspects of speech sound in a particular language.
posted by Rini Ekayati :: Linguistics :: @ 4:11 PM
1 Comments:
warm greeting!
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