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Phonetics vs Phonics - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between phonetics and phonics

is that phonetics is the study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols while phonics is the study of how the sounds of words are represented by spelling.

phonetics

English

(wikipedia phonetics)

Noun

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  • (linguistics) The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.

    • Related terms

    * phonetic * phonetician * phonology * International Phonetic Alphabet

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    phonics

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia phonics) (-)
  • The study of how the sounds of words are represented by spelling.
  • A method of teaching elementary reading based on the phonetic interpretation of normal spelling.
  • Phonetics.

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