Abstract: Many different answers can be given to the question, "What is phonology?" The classical definition differentiates phonology from phonetics, as in the following passage from Catford (2001): The study of the physiological, aerodynamic, and acoustic characteristics of speech-sounds is the central concern of phonetics[all emphases as in the original]. The study of how sounds are organized into systems and utilized in languages is the central concern of phonology. Neither of these two linguistic disciplines is independent of the other. A knowledge of what features of sound are most utilized in languages determines what aspects of sound production are most worth studying in depth. Thus phonetics depends to some extent upon phonology to indicate areas of linguistic relevance and importance. Phonology, on the other hand, is heavily dependent on phonetics, since it is phonetics that provides the insights that enable one to discover what sound features are linguistically utilized, and it is phonetics again, that supplies the terminology for the description and classification of the linguistically relevant features of sounds, (p. 177) KeywordsLanguage AcquisitionPhonological TheoryPhonological MemoryLanguage ChangeLanguage UniversalThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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