Phonology the linguistic organisation of speech

We And that the degree of clarity or distinctiveness between phonemes in speech therefore varies depending on the conversational context. In situations where the listener has a strong idea of what will be said next, we find that speakers tend to be less distinct as the chance of confusion is low. Hence we find that speech in conversations between friends and family can exhibit quite indistinct acoustic patterns. Conversely, we see that in situations where the listeners caimot easily guess what will be said next, we find the level of distinctiveness increases. Lectures or news broadcasts are good examples of this type of speech. 

Now that we have described the production process and the means by which discrete information can be encoded in a continuous signal, we turn to the issue of how speech sounds are organised linguistically. So far we have simply said that words are made from sequences of phonemes, but a closer examination will show however that it is far from the case that any sequence of phonemes 

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