phonology
has definitions from the fields of linguistics,phonetics,phonology
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[ noun ] (linguistics,phonetics,phonology) the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
Synonyms Used in print (H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)Of_course , something of the same sort occurs with other sectors of the phonology : consonantal articulations have both a linguistic and an individual component . The difficulty of analysis of any subsystem in the phonology is an inverse_function of the size - smaller systems are more troublesome - for any given degree of morphophonemic complexity . Most others have been content to give only the most general attention to the broadest and most obvious features of the phonology when designing orthographies . To do so , he finds it necessary to examine the relevant parts of the phonology thoroughly and in_detail . But it would seem more intended as a tract advocating the prosodic theory than a paper directed to the specific problems of Igbo phonology . Related terms |
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