'Phonology' definitions:
Definition of 'phonology'
(from WordNet)
noun
The study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes [syn: phonology, phonemics]
Definition of 'Phonology'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'phonology'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablaut,
- acoustic phonetics,
- articulatory phonetics,
- betacism,
- bowwow theory,
- comparative linguistics,
- derivation,
- descriptive grammar,
- descriptive linguistics,
- dialectology,
- dingdong theory,
- etymology,
- generative grammar,
- glossematics,
- glossology,
- glottochronology,
- glottology,
- gradation,
- grammar,
- grammatical analysis,
- grammatical theory,
- grammaticality,
- graphemics,
- historical linguistics,
- language study,
- lexicology,
- lexicostatistics,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic science,
- linguistics,
- mathematical linguistics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- mutation,
- orthoepy,
- paleography,
- parsing,
- philology,
- phonetics,
- phrase-structure grammar,
- psycholinguistics,
- rhotacism,
- rules of language,
- school grammar,
- semantics,
- sociolinguistics,
- sound shift,
- stratificational grammar,
- structural grammar,
- structuralism,
- syntactics,
- tagmemic analysis,
- traditional grammar,
- transformational grammar,
- transformational linguistics,
- umlaut