Meaning of PHONOLOGY
| Pronunciation: | | fu'nâlujee
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| | Definition: | | [n] the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes |
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| | Synonyms: | | phonemics |
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| | See Also: | | descriptive linguistics, synchronic linguistics | |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Definition: | | study of speech sounds. |
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| Glossary |
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| | Definition: | | the sound system of a language. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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