Phonology vs Syntactic - What's the difference?
phonology | syntactic |
(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:
Of, related to or connected with syntax.
* 2001 , Martin Haspelmath, Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook , page 674:
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 syntactic is
of, related to or connected with syntax.phonology
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 * phonologicallysyntactic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake.
- the rules specifying how agglutinative morphemes are combined with each other are more syntactic than morphological by their nature and thus are closer to rules specifying how word-forms are combined with each other.