Phonetics and Phonology: Introduction

The first in our Introduction to linguistics series! Here, we'll have a look phonetics and phonology - the disciplines that are all about what sounds we make to communicate.
For this series, we will be using Bernd Kortmann's "English Linguistics: Essentials", publishes by Cornelsen, first edition (ISBN: 978-3-44-31162-2). It's a detailed but accessible introduction to linguistics.
However, the book and series are intended to function independently - the videos should give you a short, entertaining summary of key concepts and add nicely to any book or lecture you're attending.

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Phonetics is like C++ /machine code in its low-level nature in its and Phonology is like Python in its lovely abstraction

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It may feel a little bit dry, but it's the toolkit that will allow you to dive into much more fascinating topics!

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This was really helpful. I am taking Linguistics at College and your drawings made it so much easier to understand. Thanks!

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Timely & simple to grasp , Sir ! Will be a great help to someone who may not know where to start acquiring this important skill to speak. Look forward to more of these .

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Thank you so much! I'm just finishing up my MA, I hope that I'll be able to continue with the videos soon. Animation is just extremely time consuming.

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Glad it helped!

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[@fatima5524]

*It was helpful thanks a lot* Sir, can we say that phonetics is a practical part because it deals with how we pronounce letters while phonology is a theoretical part?

[@jonaswagner4310]

Yes and no. There is definitely "practical" phonology. Think of the different ways English speakers around the world pronounce words. For example (as in the video), the /t/ sound in "butter" is pronounced differently in England and the United States. Phonologists can use this (and other examples) to tell where someone is from, for example. Phonologists just also say that they represent the same "idea" of a sound (because you still know that the word "butter" is the same, even though it sounds slightly different). How that idea is realised can vary.

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Thank you! I've actually gotten my master's in computational linguistics, and I'm very happy to see that more linguistics is being taught in NLP

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[@jonaswagner4310]

Thank you very much! May I ask how you found this video? I think that they're sometimes linked in university classes, which would be wonderful.

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I was specifically looking for "the difference between phonetics and phonology" and suddenly this video showed up. Clicked right away! I'm so glad I found it, you made the concept crystal clear.

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[@jonaswagner4310]

Thank you very much! I do have two other videos up. Unfortunately, I got hung up on the next one (on consonants), and then I had to finish a degree, start a new one... I simply didn't have time. But I'm hoping to make a few more starting in April!

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You're quite welcome!

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[@jonaswagner4310]

I really tried - it just takes so much time to do the animation. When I started out, I was a mostly jobless student, so that wasn't an issue, but that has changed now

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Thank you so much for the explanation but I have something to say that the p sound in Arabic writes like that ب not like that ج please

[@jonaswagner4310]

Thanks for the note! I'm a bit confused though - I didn't use any Arabic script in the video, so I'm not entirely sure what you mean

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[@jonaswagner4310]

Maybe an analogy might be helpful. Imagine the difference between someone reading a novel and someone judging someone’s handwriting. If you read a novel, you’re interested in the story. You want to know what happened, or what will happen next. If it’s a crime novel, you want to know who committed the crime, and how they will be caught. In a fantasy novel you’ll be fascinated by the world, the dragons, the story, and so on. You can enjoy the style of the author - how they construct their sentences, how they structure their stories, and so on. But the font and the typing won’t matter very much to you. In the end, it’s the same novel. But if you’re a primary school teacher, you sometimes may have to check a student’s handwriting. They will write stories, and you’ll read them, but you will also check if they spelled everything right, and if all the letters are well crafted. You will look at very small details, but you will probably not focus on some very large structures - after all, your students are not novelists. It is similar in phonetics and phonology. A phonetician will look at extremely small details. The EXACT position of the tongue, exactly how long the air is held before a plosive is released, and many more very small things. Phonologists are more interested in structures. They don’t care that the t-sound in “butter” sounds different in American English and British English, because both will still know that they’re talking about “butter”. Just like if you read a novel, you won’t care very much whether it is written in Arial or Times New Roman - the words are the same. They just look a bit different. Of course, phonetics and phonology work together. To find out whether something is actually relevant to the structure of a language, you need to measure it precisely. But the overall difference is what I tried to outline above. I hope I could maybe help you a bit! Don’t hesitate to approach your tutors and professors with these questions, most of them will be happy to help you. And remember, if you have a question, chances are that someone else has the same question as well.

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What app is used to make this video?

[@jonaswagner4310]

I used Blender, but that's probably the least efficient way to animate. I hand drew all of it. I'm sure there's better ways of achieving this!

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