Phonic vs Phonology - What's the difference?
phonic | phonology |
Of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic.
(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 an adjective phonic
is of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic.As a noun 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.phonic
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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.