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Perhaps less well known than the phonetics, phonology is another branch of science linguistics which is responsible for analyze and study sounds from a level of syntax and the structure they form in the language, as well as from how meaning is constructed through it. Here, then, the main difference that phonology has with phonetics is clear since the latter is dedicated to studying the sounds from a physiological point of view, that is, how they are generated by different parts of the body and how to form them properly.

Phonology is just as important as phonetics and perhaps even more since it is responsible for giving the sounds we pronounce to communicate a structure, a meaning. Phonology is concerned first of all with analyzing or trying to understand the different structures and sound systems that make up language, for example through rhyme, accentuations, etc. But on the other hand, it analyzes how those sounds are specially generated to achieve a specific meaning that differs from the rest of the sounds used in language.

It is really important to observe how the same letters or characters that are used over and over again to form different words can have a different sound for each of those words and different from the rest. Thus, some letters may be longer in some words but shorter in others, while other letters may have greater sound power in certain words or sound expressions.

A central part of the study of phonology are the phonemes that are normally represented in the most languages ​​by the letters of the alphabet (although in languages ​​such as Chinese or Japanese, the same). These phonemes are not the He drew or the character with which each of those sounds is represented if not the phoneme is a building abstract of what that particular sound represents in each word and that allows us, for example, to differentiate the word lfall of voto.