Phonetics and Phonology

The study of the sounds from the point of view of their linguistic function resulted in distinguishing such phonetic unit as a
p h o n e m e.

The discriminatory function consists in distinguishing one sequence of sounds (words, sentences, texts) from another with a different meaning (e.g. back – bag: due to the force of articulation we can differentiate between the meaning = fortis /k/ and lenis /g/).