ABSTRACT
Do we, in linguistics, need both a phonetics and a phonology? And if we do, what is the relationship between them? The question of the extent to which phonetics is relevant to phonology has long been debated, and the extreme position, that phonetics is entirely irrelevant, has been taken by such otherwise diametrically opposed scholars as Troubetskoy (1949) and Bloomfield (1933). But the opposite view may also be taken: If phonetic research provides us with an accurate acoustic and physiological description of speech sounds, what do we need phonology for?
