Phonology??

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Hi everyone! I would like to get the meaning of this sentence"Phonology is about the underlying design, the blueprint of the sound type, that serves as the constant basis of all the variations in different physical articulation of the sound type in different contexts"Thank you in advance.

Philip · Accepted Answer

I think it's just a very involved way of defining phonology, the complete sound system of a given language.

Fivejedjon · Answer

Perhaps you'll understand it better if you remember that the phonological symbol for a phoneme represents a range of sounds. This is in contrast to tp phonetic symbols, which represent precisely one clearly defined sound.

For example , the phonetic symbol represents a close front unrounded that will be pronounced in exactly the same way by every phonetician in the world. The British English phonemic symbol /i:/ represents a sound that that will be pronounced slightly differently depending in the sounds surrounding it. The vowels sounds you hear in eat and eke, for example are slightly different, though all native speakers consider them to be the same sound. The symbol representing a sound that most of us will hear as 'eeee', is a useful basis for all the articulations of the slightly variant sounds.

Kunsusuki · Answer

Thank you so much, I have another questions concerning phonology. I've found that a syllable must contain a vowel or vowel like. How could that be possible? I thought that the nucleus of a syllable is only a vowel no! also I found that there are two kinds of phonetic transcription:a phonemic transcription and an allophonic transcription. Is that correct? because i've always kept in mind that there are two kinds of TRANSCRIPTION in general a phonetic one and a phonemic one. Thank you in advance.

Fivejedjon · Answer

kunsusukiThank you so much, I have another questions concerning phonology. I've found that a syllable must contain a vowel or vowel like. How could that be possible? I thought that the nucleus of a syllable is only a vowel no!

While syllables normally contain a vowel, such expressions as mmm, psst, sh, etc, can be considered as syllables. There are no vowels there. There are also several English words containing syllabic /m/, /n/ and /l/.

kunsusuki I found that there are two kinds of phonetic transcription:a phonemic transcription and an allophonic transcription. Is that correct? because i've always kept in mind that there are two kinds of TRANSCRIPTION in general a phonetic one and a phonemic one.

There are, broadly speaking, two types of transcription, phonemic and phonetic. There are however, a several types of phonetic transcription, ranging from broad to narrow. Allophones of a phoneme are not distinguished in phonemic transcription, but are in phonetic transcription, especially in narrow transcription.

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