Phonology vs Semantics - What's the difference?
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(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:
(linguistics) A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words.
The study of the relationship between words and their meanings.
* 2006 , Patrick Blackburn, Johan Bos, and Kristina Striegnitz, [http://www.learnprolognow.org/lpnpage.php?pagetype=html&pageid=lpn-htmlse32 Learn Prolog Now!] , section 8.1:
The individual meanings of words, as opposed to the overall meaning of a passage.
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.As an adjective semantics is
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English
Noun
(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.
Synonyms
*Derived terms
* phonologist * phonologic * phonological * phonologicallysemantics
English
Noun
(wikipedia semantics) (-)- Semantics is a foundation of lexicography.
- In fact, nowadays a lot is known about the semantics of natural languages, and it is surprisingly easy to build semantic representations which partially capture the meaning of sentences or even entire discourses.
- The semantics of the terms used are debatable.
- The semantics of a single preposition is a dissertation in itself.