phonology

Definitions

1. phonology (subfield of linguistics concerned with the way sounds function in languages)
2. The study of the way sounds function in languages, including accent, intonation, phonemes, stress, and syllable structure, and which sounds are distinctive units within a language; (countable) the way sounds function within a given language; a phonological system.
   uncountable
3. The study of the way components of signs function in a sign language, and which components are distinctive units within the language; (countable) the way components of signs function within a given sign language.
   broadly, uncountable

Equivalents

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Afrikaansfonologie

العربيةاَلتَّصْرِيفُ ٱلصَّوْتِيُّعِلْمُ ٱلْأَصْوَاتِ ٱللُّغَوِيَّةِعلم الأصواتفُونُولُوجِيَّانطقيات+ 2 more

Azərbaycan dilifonologiya

বাংলাধ্বনিতত্ত্ব

བོད་སྐད།སྒྲ་སྦྱོར་རིག་པ

Bosanskifonologijaфонетикафонологија

Catalàfonologia

Češtinafonologiehláskosloví

Cymraegffonoleg

Danskfonologilydsystem

Ελληνικάφωνολογία

Esperantofonologio

Eestifonoloogia

Euskarafonologia

Suomiäänneoppifonologia

Gaeilgefoghareolaíochtfóineolaíocht

Galegofonoloxía

हिन्दीस्वनिमविज्ञान

Hrvatskifonologijaфонетикафонологија

Bahasa Indonesiafonologi

Íslenskahljóðkerfisfræði

Italianofonologia

日本語音韻論

ქართულიფონეტიკაფონოლოგია

한국어어음학음운론

Lietuviųfonologija

Latviešufonoloģija

Македонскифонологија

Bahasa Melayufonologi

Maltifonoloġija

Nederlandsklankleer

Polskifonologiagłosownia

Portuguêsfonologia

Românăfonologie

Русскийфонетикафонология

Slovenčinafonológia

Slovenščinaglasoslovje

Српскиfonologijaфонетикафонологија

Svenskafonologi

Kiswahilifonolojia

ไทยสัทวิทยา

Tagalogponolohiya

Türkçefonolojises bilimi

Українськафонологія

Tiếng Việtâm vị học

Yorùbáfonọlọji

Examples

“Prospectus of a new work⟳, entitled Pantographia: Containing accurate copies of all the known alphabets in the world. Together with an English explanation of the peculiar force⟳ of each letter: To which will be added specimens of all well-authenticated oral languages, Forming a comprehensive Digest of phonology.”

“The advantages of such a system [of a universal alphabet], both scientific and practical, were urged, the former in connection with the study⟳ of ethnology and philology, and the latter chiefly in connection with the great Protestant missionary enterprises of the present⟳ time. Professor [Karl Richard] Lepsius and Dr. Max Müller have⟳ devoted much time to the subject, founding their phonology on the physiological principles ably expounded by Dr. Johannes Müller, and published in the Transactions of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin.”

“The Achean, the ancient Malayu and other mixed phonologies possessing a considerable degree of harshness, were thus formed.”

“The most interesting applications of the phonograph, however, are to the analysis of speech. […] [T]he point⟳ in which the proposed arrangements will be of most value is in the analysis of the inflections of speech, or the rapid variations of pitch which occur⟳ continually. This analysis is of the highest importance for phonology, as the inflections are undoubtedly among the principal characteristics of dialects.”

“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.”

“Thus, underlying 'agtus' was converted first into 'āgtus' by the vowel lengthening rule⟳, and then into 'āktus' by the ancient persistent rule⟳. This example has previously been interpreted as indicating that new rules can enter⟳ a phonology elsewhere than at depth I.”

“Sign⟳ language linguists have⟳ produced many volumes of description of the phonology and morphology of signs and the syntax of sign⟳ languages.”

“The term ‘phonology’ may seem odd in the context of sign⟳ linguistics, since the word has as its root phon – the Greek word for ‘sound⟳’. […] However, sign⟳ linguists now prefer⟳ the term phonology to emphasise that the same level of structure⟳ exists in sign⟳ language and spoken language, despite the differences in modality. The study⟳ of sign⟳ phonology began with the work⟳ of William Stokoe, the American founder of sign⟳ linguistics.”

“[A]s with spoken languages, sign⟳ language phonologies are built from a repertoire of distinctive features that are assembled following principled combinatorial constraints. […] ASL [American Sign⟳ Language] linguistic properties / a. A phonology based on hand shape⟳, orientation of the hands, the location and movement of the hands within the signing space, and contact⟳ of the hands with each other and the body.”

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