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Chapter 6 The Sound Patterns of Language Phonology vs. Phonetics The study of how speech sounds form patterns is phonology The study of speech sounds is called phonetics Phonetics tells that : when we judge physically different sounds to be the same; which aspects of pronunciation are linguistically important and which are not. The science of phonetics attempts to describe all of the sounds used in all languages of the world. Phonology tells that: what sounds are in your language and which ones are foreign; what combinations of sounds could be an actual word, and what combination of sounds cou