Phonetics and Phonology - Diphthongs and Monophthongs - Presentation Slide - By Rehan Butt

Phonetics is the scientific study of human speech sounds, how they are produced, transmitted, and received. It has three branches: articulatory phonetics studies sound production, acoustic phonetics sound transmission, and auditory phonetics sound reception. Phonology studies how sounds are organized into a language's system. It has two branches: segmental phonology examines discrete sound units, and suprasegmental phonology examines features like stress and intonation. Phonetics deals with sounds in general, while phonology deals specifically with how sounds are used in a given language. Diphthongs are combinations of two vowel sounds in one syllable, while monophthongs are single consistent vowel sounds.