lexicophonology

Definitions

The adaptation of word forms to reflect pronunciation.

uncountable

Examples

“Although regional variation in Negro-dialect lexicophonology should not be severe enough to require⟳ extensive modification of standard-English word spellings in Negro-dialect reading materials, there may be a few cases in which dialect pronunciations will be too deviant […]”

“I would like⟳ to think⟳ that it is in these areas—lexicosemantics, lexicophonology, the study⟳ of anomias, the developmental characteristics of the lexicon, and the biological characterizations of the association cortex—that a neurobiology of language and artificial intelligence models will emerge⟳ to fill⟳ the existing gap between language and the brain.”

CEFR level