Definitions
the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
Word origin
From phono- (prefix denoting sound) + -logy (suffix denoting a branch of learning, or a study of a particular subject).
Used in a sentence
“The Achean, the ancient Malayu and other mixed phonologies possessing a considerable degree of harshness, were thus formed.”
“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.”
“Sign language linguists have produced many volumes of description of the phonology and morphology of signs and the syntax of sign languages.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Study of speech sounds”9 letters
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