Complete Definition of "phonology"

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Etymology
From Gr. term|scGrek|��νη|trf�n�||sound and term|scpolytonic|-λογία|tr-logía||-logy, branch of study

Pronunciation
a|RP IPA|/f��n�l�d�i/, SAMPA|/f@"nQl@dZi/
a|US IPA|/f��n�l�d�i/, SAMPA|/f@"nAl@dZi/

Noun
en-noun|phonolog|ies|-

  1. linguistics|uncountable A subfield of linguistics concerned with the way sounds function in languages.
  2. linguistics|countable The way sounds function within a given language.

#* 1856, Journal of the Indian Archipelago and Eastern Asia, Mission Press, page 16:
#*: The Achean, the ancient Malayu and other mixed phonologies possessing a considerable degree of harshness, were thus formed.
#* 1997, Jacek Fisiak, Trends in Linguistics: Studies in Middle English Linguistics (ISBN 3110152428), Walter de Gruyter, page 545:
#*: 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.
#* 2005, Charles W. Kreidler, Phonology, page 219:
#*: Thus, underlying �agtus� was converted first into ��gtus� by the vowel lengthening rule, and then into ��ktus� 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.

Derived terms
phonologist, phonologic, phonological, phonologically

Related terms
sense|subfield of linguistics concerned with the way sounds function in languages phonetics
sense|the way sounds function within a given language phonetics

Translations
trans-top|subfield of linguistics concerned with the way sounds function in languages
Croatian: t-|hr|fonologija|f
Esperanto: t-|eo|fonologio|xs=Esperanto
Finnish: fonologia
French: t+|fr|phonologie|f
ttbc|German: t|de|Phonetik|f, t|de|Lautlehre|f, t|de|Lautbildungslerhe|f
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Japanese: ��� (on'inron)
ttbc|Korean: t|ko|���|treumseonghak|scHang
Sindhi: SDchar|�ا����اس� (Viobhiyaasu) m
Slovenian: fonologija
Spanish: t-|es|fonología|f
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trans-top|the way sounds function within a given language
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ttbc|Korean: t|ko|�� 조�|treumun jojik|scHang, t|ko|��|treumseong|scHang
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