WHAT IS PHONETICS?
is a branch of linguistics
that comprises the study of the sounds of
human speech, or in the case of sign
languages the equivalent aspects of sign.
WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG LINGUISTICS, PHONETHICS AND PHOLOGY?
The relationship between phonetics, phonology, and applied linguistics continues to be a paradoxical one. On the one hand, these fields of linguistics lend themselves more readily to applicationthan others since they deal with something more tangible and material than morphology, syntax, semantics, or historical research. On the other hand, there is something esoteric in phonetics and phonology: The objects they handle–sounds, articulatory features, acoustic spectra, stress degrees or melodies–are more elusive and hard to observe for the non-specialist than, say, suffixes, word order, or even meanings. Their terminology is rich and often forbidding, and they may sometimes seem to insist on pedantic distinctions or irrelevant detail (Dieling 1992). The validity of the phonetics–phonology dichotomy itself may be questioned when it comes to their application; however, the two fields continue to develop separately and grow further apart. Thus the application of the “sound sciences”, phonetics and phonology, is partly more advanced and partly more rudimentary than that of other linguistic branches.
WHAT IS LANGUAGE?
Language is the human capacity for
acquiring and using complex systems of communication, and a language is any
specific example of such a system. The scientific study of language is called linguistics.
WHICH ARE THE BRANCHES OF PHONETICS?
Articulatory phonetics
The study of how speech sounds are produced by
the human vocal apparatus.
Acoustic
phonetics
The study of the sound waves made by the human vocal organs for
communication.
Auditory phonetics
The study of how speech sounds are perceived by the ear, auditory nerve, and
brain
THEORY OF COMMUNICATION
Is a field of information and
mathematics that studies the
technical process of information and the
human process of human communication. According to
communication theorist Robert T. Craig in his essay 'Communication
Theory as a Field' (1999), "despite the ancient roots and growing profusion
of theories about communication," there is not a field of study that can be
identified as 'communication theory'
