Phonology-linguistics

Phonology is the study of the sound system of languages it is a huge area of language theory and it is difficult to do more on a general language course than have an outline knowledge of what it includes. At one extreme phonology is concerned with anatomy,and physiology-the organs of speech and how we learn to use them. At another extreme,phonology shades into socio-linguistics as we consider social attitudes to features of sound such as accent and intonation.