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16 questions linked to/from What's the difference between phonetics and phonology?
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When should one use slashes or square brackets when transcribing in IPA?
When should one use /fubar/ and when [fubar] when transcribing in IPA? What are the differences?
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Is the very concept of the phoneme disputed?
I believe there was some important research published in recent decades which brought a fundamental change to the way linguists think about phonemes.
Or is it that the concept of the phoneme has ...
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What is the difference between a diphthong and a glide?
It's easy for me to imagine the difference, but hard for me to conceptualize it. I guess one involves two vowels and the other involves a consonant, right? Am I on the right track, or is there a more ...
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How to determine which phoneme a group of allophones realizes?
This question is related to this other one, about the difference between Phonetics and Phonology.
I can understand the difference between the two subfields as well as what it means to produce ...
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Differences between phonemic and phonetic transcriptions
As far as I know, there are three main differences between phonemic and phonetic transcriptions:
Phonetic transcriptions deal with phones or sounds, which can occur across different languages and ...
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Are there counterparts to phones and phonetics for signed languages?
Given that there is a difference between phonetics and phonology, and that in the study of signed languages cherology is the counterpart to phonology, are there also counterparts to phones and ...
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Are 'cot' and 'cat' morphologically similar?
Can we say that words like 'cot' and 'cat' morphologically similar? I understand morphology as different forms of a particular word, eg. swim, swam, swimming, so my definition of morphology does not ...
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What are the characteristics of a glide in English?
I’m wondering how exactly do you make a “w” and “y” sound in English. These two are considered the glides of English, but what exactly makes it a glide? What are the characteristics of a glide sound? ...
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What are the differences between phonology, phonetics, and prosody?
I already read this but it omits prosody. The inclusion of prosody confuses me and beclouds the other two terms (again). Please explain as though I were 10 years old.
[Source:] Phonetics is the ...
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Phoneticians versus phonologists
What is the difference between a phonetician and a phonologist? I've seen these two terms somewhere on this site but can't figure out the difference.
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An analogy to understand phonetics and phonology
Is it accurate to make this statement?
An analogy of the difference between phonetics and phonology can be made with music. Phonetics would be the study of the vocals and sounds made by instruments ...
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What is the dividing line between phonetics and phonology? [duplicate]
From my understanding, Phonetics is the study of physical aspect of sounds, including how sounds are produced (articulatory phonetics), how they are perceived (auditory phonetics) and the physics ...
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Looking for a graphic illustration of the phonetic and phonology interface [duplicate]
Look, I understand the basics of phonetics and phonology. Phonetics is a physical science and phonology is a psychological science, sort of. Nonetheless, they both treat the same object: linguistic ...
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Why's IPA constrainted by phonemic, not phonetic, contrastivity?
To try to understand phonetics vs. phonology, I already read What's the difference between phonetics and phonology?, Oxford Univ. Prof. John Coleman's page, ResearchGate, Univ. of Pennsylvania ...
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What this difference between phonemic and phonetic transcriptions? [duplicate]
Consider the Wikipedia article for phoneme, this is in Norwegian but one can easily translate, I will use this example for asking the question.
Fonemer er vanligvis plassert mellom skråstreker i ...