Phonetic vs Semantics - What's the difference?
phonetic | semantics |
Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
(linguistics) Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes)
(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.
(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.
In linguistics terms the difference between phonetic and semantics
is that 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 while semantics is a branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words.As an adjective phonetic
is relating to the sounds of spoken language.phonetic
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Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* phonetical * phoneticallyNoun
(en noun)semantics
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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.