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noun (phonolog, ies, -)
- (linguistics, uncountable) A subfield of linguistics concerned with the way sounds function in languages.
- (linguistics, countable) The way sounds function within a given language.
- 1856, Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, Mission Press, page 16:
- : The Achean, the ancient Malayu and other mixed phonologies possessing a considerable degree of harshness, were thus formed.
- 1997, Jacek Fisiak, Trends in Linguistics: Studies in Middle English Linguistics (ISBN 3110152428), Walter de Gruyter, page 545:
- : Crucially, the neat separateness of phonologies which my account seems to imply is an abstraction and does not mean that the phonologies represented different regional or social dialects.
- 2005, Charles W. Kreidler, Phonology, page 219:
- : Thus, underlying "agtus" was converted first into "�gtus" by the vowel lengthening rule, and then into "�ktus" by the ancient persistent rule. This example has previously been interpreted as indicating that new rules can enter a elsewhere than at depth I.
Etymology: From (term, sc=Grek, , tr=fÅnÄ, , sound) and (term, sc=polytonic, -, tr=-logía, , -logy, branch of study)
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