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phonology
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes [syn: phonemics ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1799, from phono- + -logy .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Phonology \Pho*nol"o*gy\, n. [Phono- + -logy.] The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context linguistics uncountable English) 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. 2 (context linguistics countable ...
Wikipedia
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Phonology is a British peer-reviewed journal of phonology published by Cambridge University Press , the only journal devoted exclusively to this subfield of linguistics . The current editors are Prof. Colin J. Ewen ( Leiden University ) and Prof. Ellen ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES generative grammar/linguistics/phonology ▪ In generative phonology, the claim is that, at the abstract level, vowels are simply tense or lax. ▪ Instead they believe that it is Sampson's generative grammar formulation that ...
Usage examples of phonology.
Quenya phonology: When a word ends in a vowel and the next word begins in one, the former vowel may drop out.
For instance, the allative "to Elendil" cannot be **Elendilnna, for Quenya phonology does not permit the group "lnn".
If this is so, we have every reason to assume that the same case endings were suffixed to dual forms in -u as well, for instance like this (using Aldu "Two Trees" as our standard example): Aldu + -o for genitive = Alduo Aldu + -n for dative = Aldun Aldu + -nna for allative = Aldunna Aldu + -llo for ablative = Aldullo Aldu + -ssë for locative = Aldussë Aldu + -nen for instrumental = Aldunen These forms would undergo no further changes, since they are all acceptable Quenya as far as phonology goes.
But even the snatches that there are required, if they were to have a meaning, two organized phonologies and grammars and a large number of words.
The beautiful phonologies, thrown away or mouldering in drawers, arduous if pleasant in construction, the source of what little I know in the matter of phonetic construction based on my own individual predilections, will not interest you.