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Phonetics & Phonology and Other Disciplines

The document discusses the relationships between phonetics & phonology and other fields like linguistics, stylistics, semantics, morphology, syntax and applied linguistics. It explains that phonetics is the study of speech sounds and their production, while phonology examines how sounds pattern and combine in a language. Phonetics & phonology relate to linguistics as they are branches that study the sound systems of languages. They interact with morphology through influences on morpheme forms and rules. Phonetics provides the basis for phonological analyses and descriptions. The fields also contribute to applied areas including forensic phonetics and speech technology.

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Phonetics & Phonology and Other Disciplines

The document discusses the relationships between phonetics & phonology and other fields like linguistics, stylistics, semantics, morphology, syntax and applied linguistics. It explains that phonetics is the study of speech sounds and their production, while phonology examines how sounds pattern and combine in a language. Phonetics & phonology relate to linguistics as they are branches that study the sound systems of languages. They interact with morphology through influences on morpheme forms and rules. Phonetics provides the basis for phonological analyses and descriptions. The fields also contribute to applied areas including forensic phonetics and speech technology.

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The Relationship between phonetics & phonology and other disciplines

Phonetics and phonology are becoming increasingly interdisciplinary.


Phoneticians rely on, or at least collaborate with, sociologists, psychologists,
biologists, poets, physicists, anthropologists, neurologists and others. A look
at the history of phonetics and phonology reveals that this seemingly recent
trend has deep roots. In fact, it is possible to draw parallels between the
nature and direction of interdisciplinary influences on the work done by
contributors to phonetics and phonology both now and in the past.

Phonetics & Phonology and stylistic

They are connected with stylistics through the intonation ( speech melody ,
sentence stress , rhythm , pauses , timber ) . Thus , they serve to express
emotions . They help to distinguish manifold attitudes on the part of the
speaker and author . It is connected through the repetition of the word ,
phrases as well .

Phonetics & Phonology and Linguistics


Linguistics is the scientific study of Language . It is divided into many fields .
Phonetics and phonology are parts of the linguistic map of any language and
they are studied under the condition of linguistics as sciences . They are in a
common relationship with other fields of Linguistics , such as syntax ,
semantics , morphology and so on .
In other words phonetics is the scientific study of speech sounds and
phonology is the study of what sounds a language has and how these sounds
combine to form words; syntax is the study of how words can be combined
into sentences; and semantics is the study of the meanings of words and
sentences ( Saeed , 2009 , P.3 ) .

The Relation Between Phonetics and Phonology

The study of speech sounds is subdivided between two but related


disciplines- Phonetics and Phonology. Phonetics and phonology are very
close even in the lexical definitions , where phonology and phonetics form the
study of speech sounds ( Agnes & Guralnik , 2007 , P.1083 ) . The
boundaries between phonetics and phonology are very difficult to draw as the
discipline rely on each other to a large extent, in the sense that phonological
analysis has to be grounded in phonetic facts, and phonetic fact have to be
geared towards these capacities of the human vocal tract which sub serve
language specifically.
In other words A phonetic study tells how the sounds of a language are made
and what their acoustic properties are . It, then, provides an inventory and
description of the occurring phonetic segments . A phonological study tells
how these sounds are used to convey meaning , and also refers to the
inventory of segments in a language. It deals with the structure of the phonetic
segments in a language. It also deals with the function of these segments.
That is, the two phenomena have a physical ( phonetically ) and
psychological ( phonologically ) side , because speech sounds function to
convey meaning, speakers sometimes have internal or mental
representations of sounds which are not identical with their physical properties
( Hyman , 1975 , P .2-3 ) .

The study of sound structure is commonly divided into phonology and


phonetics. An understanding of the interface between them is, thus,
dependent on how we delineate the two areas. Most theorizing about the
relationship between phonology and phonetics acknowledges that there are
both conceptual and physical aspects of sounds of human language.
Phonology is often defined as the cognitive aspects of sound structures and
sound patterns, while phonetics is understood to be the physical
implementation of these structures and patterns. Under this view, phonology
is what the speaker/hearer knows about the sound patterns of his/her
language and, thus, is non controversially part of the linguistic grammar.
Phonetics, on the other hand, is what actually happens during the production
and perception of these cognitive patterns.

The Relation Between Phonetics & Phonology and Syntax

it need only be said that phonology is concerned with the patterns and
organization of languages. in terms of the phonetic features and categories
involved, and syntax is concerned with the patterns and arrangements of units
established and organized on criteria other than those referable to phonetic
features alone ( Robins , 1964 , P . 18 ) . Phonetics is closely connected with
syntax by means of the system of rules . It is very helpful to pronounce
correctly the plural forms of nouns , past indefinite and past participle of
English regular verbs .Some linguists diminish the importance of this
relationship by saying that phonology cannot directly access syntax nor can it
read off syntactic information straight from arboreal structures. Phonological
rules can only refer to prosodic constituents such as the syllable, the foot, the
phonological word, the phonological phrase, the intonational phrase and the
utterance ( Kula , et al , 2011 , P. 231 )
The Relation between semantics , phonetics and phonology :
phonological contrast emerges on the basis of increasing association of
phonetic and semantic information. From early language development as, it is
clear that the first language skill of new born infants is phonetic learning The
next important ability is semantic learning, i.e. the development of item
categories, which is rudimentarily starting at five months of age Only
afterwards phonological learning begins at around 18 months of age. In
consequence phonological categories are established. They determine that it
is still difficult for 14-month-old infants to discriminate two objects
corresponding to words if these words are similar on the phonetic level.
During the productive language development this is shown when producing
words correctly becomes better with more semantic reference at around 18
months as well Especially this is relevant for acquiring phonological
categories and confirms collection of phonological knowledge depends on
phonetics in combination with semantics.

The Relation between phonetics & phonology and morphology

without phonetics , the phonology will not exist , from this sense , one cannot
draw a relationship between phonology and morphology without mention the
source of the phonology . It is true that phonology is the main key between
phonetics and morphology , so the highlighting will be on phonology and the
morphology .

Phonology is the area of linguistics that is concerned with sound regularities


in languages: what sounds exist in a language, how those sounds combine
with each other into syllables and words, and how the prosody (stress, accent,
tone, and so on) of a language works. Phonology interacts with morphology in
a number of ways: morphemes may have two or more different phonological
forms whose appearance may be completely or at least partly predictable.
Some phonological rules apply when two or more morphemes are joined
together. In some languages morphemes display different phonological
behavior depending on whether they are native to the language or borrowed
into it from some other language. In this chapter we will explore the various
ways in which phonology interacts with morphology ( Lieber , 2009 , 158 ) .
Bloomfield thought that , the morphophonemic component transforms the
structures from the morphology into sequences of phonemes ( Bever , 1961 ,
p. 26 )

The Relationship Between Phonetics & Phonology and Applied Linguistics

The relationship between phonetics, phonology, and applied linguistics


continues to be a paradoxical one. On the one hand, these fields of linguistics
lend themselves more readily to application than others since they deal with
something more tangible and material than morphology, syntax, semantics, or
historical research. On the other hand, there is something esoteric in
phonetics and phonology: The objects they handle–sounds, articulatory
features, acoustic spectra, stress degrees or melodies–are more elusive and
hard to observe for the non-specialist than, say, suffixes, word order, or even
meanings. Their terminology is rich and often forbidding, and they may
sometimes seem to insist on pedantic distinctions or irrelevant detail. The
validity of the phonetics–phonology dichotomy itself may be questioned when
it comes to their application; however, the two fields continue to develop
separately and grow further apart. Thus the application of the “sound
sciences”, phonetics and phonology, is partly more advanced and partly more
rudimentary than that of other linguistic branches. The purpose of the present
survey is to demonstrate the importance of phonology and its applications in
TEFL. To do so, this survey will examine current development in both
phonetics and phonology, and then suggest implications for instructional
contexts .
Phonetic insight is used in several applied linguistic fields such as:

-Forensic phonetics: the use of phonetics for legal purposes

-Speech recognition: the analysis and transcription of recorded speech by


a computer system

-Speech synthesis: the production of human speech by a computer system


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Agnes , Guralink . 2009 . College Dictionary .Willey Publishing

Bever . 1961. Leonard Bloomfield and the Phonology of the Moment .


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Hyman . 1975 . Phonology ; theory and analysis .Holt , Rinehart and


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Kula , Botman , Nasukawa . 2011 . The Continuum Companion to


Phonology . Library of Congress

Lieber . 2009 . Introducing Morphology . Cambridge University Press

Robins . 1965 . General Linguistics an Introductory Survey . Library of


Congress

Saeed . 2009 . Semantics . Utopia Press

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