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Phonetic vs Phonological - What's the difference?

phonetic | phonological |

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

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
  • (linguistics) Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes)

    • Derived terms

    * phonetical * phonetically

    Related terms

    * phone * phoneme * phonemic * phonetics * semiphonetic * fauxnetic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • phonological

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to phonology.
  • *
    • [...] 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.).

    Derived terms

    * phonologically