Grammar vs Phonology - What's the difference?
grammar | phonology |
A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.
(uncountable, linguistics) The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax).
A book describing the rules of grammar of a language.
(computing theory) A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
* 2006 , Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz,
(computing theory) A formal system defining a formal language
The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
* 2011 , (Javier Solana) and (Daniel Innerarity), Project Syndicate,
(British, archaic) A textbook.
(UK) A grammar school.
* 2012, Graeme Paton, A green light for more grammars ?'' (in ''The Daily Telegraph , 11 January 2012)
(obsolete) To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
(linguistics, uncountable) The study of the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, accent, intonation, and which sounds are distinctive units within a language.
(linguistics, countable) The way sounds function within a given language.
* 1856 , Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia , Mission Press, page 16:
* 1997 , Jacek Fisiak, Trends in Linguistics: Studies in Middle English Linguistics (ISBN 3110152428), Walter de Gruyter, page 545:
* 2005 , Charles W. Kreidler, Phonology , page 219:
As nouns the difference between grammar and phonology
is that grammar is a system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language while phonology is (linguistics|uncountable) the study of the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, accent, intonation, and which sounds are distinctive units within a language.As a verb grammar
is (obsolete|intransitive) to discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.grammar
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Alternative forms
* grammaryNoun
Learn Prolog Now!, §8.2
- Because real lexicons are big and complex, from a software engineering perspective it is best to write simple grammars that have a simple, well-defined way, of pulling out the information they need from vast lexicons. That is, grammars should be thought of as separate entities which can access the information contained in lexicons. We can then use specialised mechanisms for efficiently storing the lexicon and retrieving data from it.
The New Grammar of Power:
- We must learn a new grammar of power in a world that is made up more of the common good – or the common bad – than of self-interest or national interest.
- a grammar of geography
Synonyms
* (linguistics) morpho-syntax (from the relationship between morphology and syntax)Hyponyms
* * *Derived terms
* * *Verb
(en verb)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
See also
* (wikipedia) * *External links
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phonology
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(wikipedia phonology)- The Achean, the ancient Malayu and other mixed phonologies possessing a considerable degree of harshness, were thus formed.
- Crucially, the neat separateness of phonologies' which my account seems to imply is an abstraction and does not mean that the ' phonologies represented different regional or social dialects.
- Thus, underlying ‘agtus’ was converted first into ‘?gtus’ by the vowel lengthening rule, and then into ‘?ktus’ by the ancient persistent rule. This example has previously been interpreted as indicating that new rules can enter a phonology elsewhere than at depth I.