The study of language Phonology The descriptions of the systems and patterns of speech sound in a language.

It is concern with the abstract or mental aspects of the sounds in language rather than the physical articulation of speech sounds. And it helps us to distinguish meaning in the physical sounds we say and hear. Phonemes It is the single stable or abstract unit of sound type which is represented by a single written symbol. Phones and allophones Phones are the many versions of a sound-type regularly produced in a speech. Phonetic units and appears in []. Allophones are the set of phones plus the prefix allo-. } Minimal pairs and set It is when two words are identical in form except for a contrast in 1 phoneme, occurring in the same position. Phonotactics These are part of every speakers phonological knowledge