Compléter Phonetics and PhonologyVersion en ligne definition par Mariana Méndez 1 overlap value linguistic organization language function phoneme sounds phonology systematize allophones constitute phonetics fields speech complement Phonetics and phonology the theoretical context about speech and how they are used in . While studies phonic substance and provides information on the physiological and acoustic properties of sounds , observes and analyzes what properties have a communicative to then functional units . For the phonologist , sounds are linguistic items whose interest is their , behaviour and . The basic notions in phonology are the unit , the ; the realizations , the and the distribution , which refers to the position these latter occupy in the chain . Even though they are sometimes considered as separate , phonetics and phonology each other and even .