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Meaning
Noun
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In Linguistics & Phonology:
The study of
the way
sounds
function
in
languages
, including
phonemes
,
syllable
structure,
stress
,
accent
,
intonation
, and which
sounds
are
distinctive
units
within a language.
●
In Linguistics & Phonology:
The way
sounds
function
within a given language; a
phonological
system.
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Origin
phonology
English
-logy
English
phono-
English
φωνή
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Sourced from
Etym
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Phonetics
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Orthography
Phonemes
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Phonemic
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Prosody
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Grammar
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Morphemes
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Etymology
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English
Intonation
Grammatical
Punctuation
Translation
Vowels
Idioms
Lexical
Lexicology
Phoneme
Collocations
Text
L2
Morphology
Syllable
Intelligibility
Word Order
Communicative Competence
Phonetic Symbols
Generative Grammar
Target Language
Applied Linguistics
Native Language
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