/foʊˈnɛtɪks/

Basic Concepts
What is Phonetics?

What is Phonology?

What’s the difference?

PHONETICS is the scientific study of
speech sounds.

- how anatomical, neurological,

physiological systems work to produce the
sounds (physiological phonetics)

- how speech sounds are produced

(auriculatory phonetics)

- how we hear and recognise different

sounds (auditory phonetics)

- how we perceive speech in our brains

(perceptual phonetics)
PHONOLOGY studies how we interpret
and systematise sounds.

- vowels (single or dipthongs)

- consonants (voiced or unvoiced)

- other suprasegmental features of

language:
for example: intonation, stress, tone,
duration.
Physiology of pronunciation

Popularly
known as
‘the voice box’
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