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phonological

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for phonological.

Editorial note

Early indications of formal regularities provide clues to the way in which phonological structure may develop over time.

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Quick take

Pertaining to the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, and accent.

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Pertaining to the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, and accent.

adjective

Of or relating to phonology.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for phonological.

adjective

Pertaining to the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, and accent.

adjective

Of or relating to phonology.

Example sentences

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Early indications of formal regularities provide clues to the way in which phonological structure may develop over time.

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So if your language has 30 phonemes, all language you hear gets slotted into those 30 phonological slots.

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The phonological route and visual route do not have the same capacities, and navigation menus are more visually-driven.

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It shows various analyses (phonological, syntactic, semantic) of the sentence The little star’s beside the big star.

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Pei suggests that this statistical method be extended not only to all other phonological, but also to all morphological and syntactical, phenomena.

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Lots of internal as well as external processes at play which tend to evolve things towards a more efficient and simple phonological system.

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But some dialects of English pronounce the two vowels the same and thus speakers of that dialect only have a single phonological slot.

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There are examples of phonological rules that are very very regular across languages).

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I'm still very curious about their question of how phonological structure arises in new languages.

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Also, this would require speakers having the same vowel distribution/phonological rules.

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Children from low-SES environments acquire language skills more slowly, exhibit delayed letter recognition and phonological awareness, and are at risk for reading difficulties (Aikens & Barbarin, 2008).

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The abstract: The division of linguistic structure into a meaningless (phonological) level and a meaningful level of morphemes and words is considered a basic design feature of human language.

Quote examples

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An + words starting with "h" is a phonological side-effect of h-dropping in some dialects.

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The title: "The gradual emergence of phonological form in a new language".

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These may have simply been "loan" glyphs, adopted to fill some phonological need, in the way that English doesn't have letters for 'sh', 'ch' or 'zh'.

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"Laziness" in language change generally follows the principle of least effort - both in syntax changes as well as phonetic and phonological changes.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use phonological in a sentence?

Early indications of formal regularities provide clues to the way in which phonological structure may develop over time.

What does phonological mean?

Pertaining to the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, and accent.

What part of speech is phonological?

phonological is commonly used as adjective.