3. Phonology 3.1 Phonetics and phonology
{"Image DocumentName": "3. Phonology 3.1 Phonetics and phonology", "Image ImageDescription": "Phonetics provides the means for describing speech sounds: ( the articulation of sounds; the differences between the sounds; etc) Phonology studies the ways in which speech sounds form systems and patterns in. human languages. 3.2 Phone, phoneme and allophone. A phone is a phonetic segment or unit. All the sounds we hear and produce in the linguistic communication are phones. Phones do not necessarily distinguish meaning. A phoneme is a phonologic unit; it is a unit that is of distinctive value. Phonemes can be further analyzed into distinctive features. The phones that can represent a phoneme are called its allophones. The same phone may belong to different phonemes in different languages, and two phones that are not allophones of one phoneme may be allophones of one phoneme in another language. The phonemic system is language specific.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}