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PHONOLOGY PHONETICS PHONOLOGY

What does Phonetics study?

Finch and Ortiz Lira, page 3


The Linguistic Hierarchy
DISCOURSE STRUCTURE
INTERACTION – TRANSACTION – EXCHANGE – MOVE - ACT

Grammatical categories PHONETICS


SENTENCE
UTTERANCE - INTONATION PHRASE
CLAUSE
PHRASE
WORD
MORPHEME

PHONEME
ALLOPHONE

Phoneme: The smallest contrastive unit that brings about a change in meaning
/vet ; bet / /mi:t; met/
Allophone: The actual realization of the phoneme

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