Q. Phonetics and Phonology and their differences.

Answer:

Phonetics and Phonology, two basic level of linguistics concern with the investigation, analysis,
description and exemplifications of speech sounds. In other words these levels examine
different aspects and behaviors of speech sounds, such as their articulation, transmission,
reception, realization, and provide us with theoretical information and material necessary to
understand the principles regulating the use of the sounds in the spoken form of a language.

Differences between Phonetics and Phonology

1. Phonetics is a level of linguistics, scientifically studies, analyzes, and interprets the

physical, physiological and psychological aspects and behaviors of speech sounds.
Phonology is a level of linguistics that studies the sound systems of languages.
Phonology is concerned with the range and function of sounds in specific languages, and
with rules which can be written to show the types of phonetic relationships that relate
and contrast words and other linguistic units.
2. A phonetic study is confined to the concrete level of sound descriptions, whereas
phonology has its job within the abstract level of sound analyses.
3. Phonetics deals with actual encoding, transmitting and decoding of speech sounds.
Phonology studies the unobservable phenomenon of how speech sounds combine to
produce meaning.
4. A phonetic unit or entity is phone. A phonological entity is phoneme which comprises all
the phonetically similar phones as its variants of realizations.
5. Two languages can have the same inventory of phonetic segments but very different
phonologies.