Phonological

Quick meaning: Phonological is an adjective meaning Of or relating to phonology.

Meaning

Of or relating to phonology.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

I am not pleased with one or two of the noun cases (they are too similar to others) and I want to change the way that the Focus category (see Section 3.5 of the grammar) is manifested (using word-order instead of an infix or other phonological marker). All in all, the language is structured almost exactly as I wanted.

Each language has its own distinct phonological qualities which a counter can tap into with effect. It is not necessarily specific phonemes (though these can sometimes be diagnostic), but rather the frequency and phonotactic distribution of each disparate set of phonemes that go together in the speech stream in certain recognisable ways.

[...] Phonological competence is also reflected in intuitions about phonological structure: any English speaker intuitively feels, for example, that the sequence 'black bird' can either be a single phonological word (BLACKbird, with primary stress on black = a species of bird, like thrush, robin, etc.), or two independent phonological words (BLACK BIRD or black BIRD = bird which is black, as opposed to 'white bird', 'yellow bird', etc.).

Synonyms for phonological

Depending on context, synonyms include phonologic, orthoepic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include phonetic, phonemic, phonic, articulatory, prosodic, segmental.

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