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Phonology Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -ology

Phonology has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes

2

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.

See Also
phonetics phonological tonology function initial phone stress sociophonology
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
descriptive linguistics
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
orthoepy
Rhyming Words
dogy fogy bogy logy pogy ology loogy elogy boogy alogy agogy dilogy oölogy oology eulogy perogy urology geology analogy trilogy
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