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Phonology vs Orthography - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between phonology and orthography

is that phonology is 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 while orthography is the study of correct spelling according to established usage.

phonology

English

Noun

(wikipedia phonology)
  • (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:
  • The Achean, the ancient Malayu and other mixed phonologies possessing a considerable degree of harshness, were thus formed.
  • * 1997 , Jacek Fisiak, Trends in Linguistics: Studies in Middle English Linguistics (ISBN 3110152428), Walter de Gruyter, page 545:
  • 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.
  • * 2005 , Charles W. Kreidler, Phonology , page 219:
  • 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.

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * phonologist * phonologic * phonological * phonologically

    orthography

    Noun

    (orthographies)
  • The study of correct spelling according to established usage.
  • The aspect of language study concerned with letters and their sequences in words.
  • Spelling; the method of representing a language or the sounds of language by written symbols.
  • (architecture) Orthographic projection; especially its use to draw an elevation, vertical projection etc. of a building.
  • Derived terms

    * orthographer * orthographic * orthographical * orthographically * orthographist

    Synonyms

    * spelling