Phonetic vs Phonological - What's the difference?
phonetic | phonological |
Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
(linguistics) Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes)
(linguistics) In such logographic writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its pronunciation; contrasted with radical.
Of or relating to phonology.
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As adjectives the difference between phonetic and phonological
is that phonetic is relating to the sounds of spoken language while phonological is of or relating to phonology.As a noun phonetic
is in such logographic writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its pronunciation; contrasted with radical.phonetic
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Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* phonetical * phoneticallyNoun
(en noun)phonological
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Adjective
(-)- [...] Phonological' competence is also reflected in intuitions about '''phonological''' structure: any English speaker intuitively feels, for example, that the sequence 'black bird' can either be a single '''phonological''' word ('''BLACK'''bird, with primary stress on ''black'' = a species of bird, like thrush, robin, etc.), or two independent '''phonological''' words ('''BLACK BIRD''' or black ' BIRD = bird which is black, as opposed to 'white bird', 'yellow bird', etc.).