Phonology is essentially the description of the systems and patterns of speech sounds
in a language. It is, in effect, based on a theory of what every speaker of a language
unconsciously knows about the sound patterns of that language. Because of this
theoretical status, phonology is concerned with the abstract or mental aspect of the
sounds in language rather than with the actual physical articulation of speech sounds.
If we can manage to make sense of Bob Belviso’s comic introduction to the story of
Goldilocks and the Three Bears quoted earlier, we must be using our phonological
knowledge of likely combinations of sounds in English words to overcome some very
unusual spellings of those words. (See the end of the chapter for a translation.)
Phonology is about the underlying design, the blueprint of each sound type,which serves
as the constant basis of all the variations in different physical articulations of that sound
type in different contexts.When we think of the [t] sound in the words tar, star, writer and
eighth as being “the same,”we actually mean that, in the phonology of English, theywould
be represented in the same way. In actual speech, these [t] sounds are all very different.
However, all these articulation differences in [t] sounds are less important to us than the
distinction between the [t] sounds in general and the [k] sounds, or the [f] sounds, or the
[b] sounds, because there are meaningful consequences related to the use of one rather
than the others. These sounds must be distinct meaningful sounds, regardless of which
individual vocal tract is being used to pronounce them, because they are what make the
words tar, car, far and bar meaningfully distinct. Considered from this point of view, we
can see that phonology is concerned with the abstract set of sounds in a language that
allows us to distinguish meaning in the actual physical sounds we say and hear.
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Phonology is essentially the description of the systems and patterns of speech soundsin a language. It is, in effect, based on a theory of what every speaker of a languageunconsciously knows about the sound patterns of that language. Because of thistheoretical status, phonology is concerned with the abstract or mental aspect of thesounds in language rather than with the actual physical articulation of speech sounds.If we can manage to make sense of Bob Belviso’s comic introduction to the story ofGoldilocks and the Three Bears quoted earlier, we must be using our phonologicalknowledge of likely combinations of sounds in English words to overcome some veryunusual spellings of those words. (See the end of the chapter for a translation.)Phonology is about the underlying design, the blueprint of each sound type,which servesas the constant basis of all the variations in different physical articulations of that soundtype in different contexts.When we think of the [t] sound in the words tar, star, writer andeighth as being “the same,”we actually mean that, in the phonology of English, theywouldbe represented in the same way. In actual speech, these [t] sounds are all very different.However, all these articulation differences in [t] sounds are less important to us than thedistinction between the [t] sounds in general and the [k] sounds, or the [f] sounds, or the[b] sounds, because there are meaningful consequences related to the use of one ratherمن الآخرين. يجب أن تكون هذه الأصوات أصوات هادفة متميزة، بغض النظر عن الذييستخدم المسالك صوتي فردي تنطق بها، نظراً لأنها التي تجعلكلمات القطران، سيارة، الآن وشريط هادف متميزة. يعتبر من وجهة النظر هذه، ونحنيمكن أن نرى أن علم الأصوات يهتم بخلاصة مجموعة الأصوات في لغة التييسمح لنا بالتمييز بين معنى في الأصوات المادية الفعلية ونحن نقول ونسمع.
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