Phonics vs Phonology - What's the difference?
phonics | phonology |
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.
(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 nouns the difference between phonics and phonology
is that phonics is the study of how the sounds of words are represented by spelling while 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.phonics
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*phonology
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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.