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phonology

[ US /fəˈnɑɫəˌdʒi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes

How To Use phonology In A Sentence

  • Each major area is enclosed by a large number of isoglosses representing differences in lexis, grammar, and phonology.
  • I studied phonology in depth at university.
  • His remarks on French, focus on syntax and semantics, all but omitting phonology, phonetics and orthography.
  • * Note: it seems to me that IE phonology had syllabification rules which favored open syllables, i.e. most consonant clusters would be analyzed as onsets rather than sequences of coda(s)-plus-onset(s). Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions
  • While these languages shared phonology and grammar, they had entirely different vocabularies.
  • While analogical change within the numeral set is common and possible in general, it doesn't appear probable here when Starostin's typically "parenthetic" *ŋi̯u "3" has not been demonstrated with regular sound correspondences using a competently reconstructed phonology that doesn't violate phonemic markedness at every turn. The hidden binary behind the Japanese numeral system
  • 2 For a brief definition of the term compensatory lengthening and some interesting examples of it, see an abstract of Campos-Astorkiza, "A Typological analysis of compensatory consonant lengthening", Phonology and Phonetics in Iberia (June 2005) (or view the pdf here). Archive 2008-06-01
  • Panini was a Sanskrit grammarian who gave a comprehensive and scientific theory of phonetics, phonology, and morphology.
  • As if this isn't enough, even though his revisal of the phonology is fundamentally flawed with the basic data available to us, he goes on to add that chi is not a palatalized velar as his proposed pattern would suggest, but a velar fricative /x/. Some observations concerning Woodard's The Ancient Languages of Europe
  • To analyse language and to define language disorders most linguists divide language into four domains: phonology, grammar, semantics, and pragmatics.
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