to this definition, phonetics can also be called linguistic analysis of human speech at the surface level. That is one obvious difference from phonology, which concerns the structure and organisation of speech sounds in natural languages; it has a theoretical and abstract nature. One example can be made to illustrate the distinction:

In English, the suffix -s can represent or or it can be silent (notated Ø), depending on context.

Articulatory phonetics

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