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Phonology

Phonology Meaning & Definition
Phonology Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Phonology?

[n] the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes

Synonyms | Synonyms for Phonology: phonemics

Related Terms | Find terms related to Phonology: ablaut | acoustic phonetics | articulatory phonetics | betacism | bowwow theory | comparative linguistics | derivation | descriptive grammar | descriptive linguistics | dialectology | dingdong theory | etymology | generative grammar | glossematics | glossology | glottochronology | glottology | gradation | grammar | grammatical analysis | grammatical theory | grammaticality | graphemics | historical linguistics | language study | lexicology | lexicostatistics | linguistic geography | linguistic science | linguistics | mathematical linguistics | morphology | morphophonemics | mutation | orthoepy | paleography | parsing | philology | phonetics | phrase-structure grammar | psycholinguistics | rhotacism | rules of language | school grammar | semantics | sociolinguistics | sound shift | stratificational grammar | structural grammar | structuralism | syntactics | tagmemic analysis | traditional grammar | transformational grammar | transformational linguistics | umlaut

See Also | descriptive linguistics | synchronic linguistics

Phonology In Webster's Dictionary

\Pho*nol"o*gy\, n. [Phono- + -logy.] The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.

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