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Definitions of phonology:
  • noun:   the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes



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phonetics phoneme phonology-journal greek-language linguistics sound language perception english-language minimal-pair pronunciation first-language aspirate thai-language quechua-wordnet syllable stress-language intonation-linguistics sign-language modality-semiotics universal-grammar writing-system phonemic-orthography international-phonetic-alphabet transcribe allophone plosive korean-language historical-linguistics assimilation-linguistics elision epenthesis vowel-harmony tone-linguistics prosody-linguistics phonotactics epic-india sanskrit grammar p-ini 520s-bc 460-bc shiva-sutra morpheme root-linguistics morphology-lang-in-encyclopedia ferdinand-de-saussure structuralism jan-niecis-aw-baudouin-de-courtenay miko-aj-kruszewski morphophonology nikolai-trubetzkoy prague-linguistic-circle phonology roman-jakobson 20th-century noam-chomsky morris-halle the-sound-pattern-of-english generative-linguistics distinctive-feature gunnar-fant underlying-representation geoffrey-pullum wolfgang-u-dressler 1976 john-goldsmith autosegmental-phonology optimality-theory government-phonology principle parameter alan-prince paul-smolensky constraint-mathematics john-mccarthy-linguist absolute-neutralisation phonological-hierarchy english-phonology shibboleth adobe-flash j-r-firth leonard-bloomfield franz-boas daniel-jones multidialectical paul-kiparsky jerzy-kury-owicz-2 andr-martinet kenneth-lee-pike jerzy-rubach edward-sapir henry-sweet lists-of-languages abkhaz-phonology arabic-phonology bengali-phonology catalan-phonology-and-orthography czech-phonology danish-phonology