Difference Between Phonetics and Phonology
Phonetics
In phonetics, we discuss physical
production of speech sounds.
Phonetics simply describes the
articulatory, auditory, and acoustic
properties of speech sounds.
Phonetics comes under descriptive
linguistics
Phonetics studies the production,
transmission, and reception of sounds
Phonetics is physics of sound
Phonetics does not deal with one
particular language but all sounds in
general
Phonetical units are called phones
Phonetic symbols are enclosed in
square brackets as [f], [m], etc.
It studies how many speech sounds a
language has.
Sounds can be divided into consonants Can
and vowels
Phonetics describes the way sounds
are spoken and interpreted by the
native speaker
Phonetics differentiates sound of a
letter(e.g. [m]) among different words
like mango, alms, jam etc.
Phonetics describes the production of
all human speech sounds regardless
of any specific language
Phonology
In phonology, we study concepts of sounds
of a language and focuses on the organization
of sounds by studying speech patterns
Phonology studies how speech sounds
combine and how they change in
combination, as well as sounds change in a
word, can contrast to produce the difference
in meaning
Phonology comes under theoretical
linguistics
Phonology studies different patterns of
sounds in different languages
Phonology is psychology of sound
In phonology, We study sounds of a specific
language
Phonological units are called phonemes
Phonemic symbols are enclosed in slash
marks as /f/, /m/, etc.
It deals with the system and pattern of speech
sounds in a language
be characterized according
to place, manner of
articulation, and voice (voiceless or voiced)
Phonology describes the way sounds
functions in a language
Phonology differentiate different phonemes and
how meaning changes in change of a phoneme
It is the study of how a specific language
sounds are organized and used
 It has three branches It has two branches
1. Acoustic phonetics 1. Segmental Phonology
2. Auditory phonetics 2. Supra-segmental phonology
3. Articulatory phonetics
It deals with a large number of speech It deals with a limited number of speech sounds
sounds.
Phonetical units may not form Phonological units are formed contrastively.
contrastively