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then try to build up the sound of a new or unfamiliar word by saying it one

sound at a time.

see alsoalphabetic method

phonological componentn
see generative theory

phonological rulen
see generative phonology

phonologyn phonologicaladj
1 another term for phonemics.
2 (for some linguists) a cover term for bothphonetics and phonemics.
3 the establishment and description of the distinctive sound units of a
language (phonemes) by means of distinctive features.
Each phoneme is considered as consisting of a group of these features and
differing in at least one feature from the other phonemes, e.g.
/ip//up/
+high ++high

• low -low


• back +back


• round +round
  where the features +or -high, +or -low, +or -backrefer to the position
  of the tongue in the mouth and +or -roundto whether the lips are rounded
  or not.
  Phonology is also concerned with:
  athe study of word-to-word relations in sentences; that is, how sound
  patterns are affected by the combination of words. For example, /giv/
  give and / him/ him may combine to /givim/ give him.
  bthe investigation of intonation patterns.
  see also boundaries, generative phonology, suprasegmental

phonotacticsn phonotactic adj
(in phonology) the arrangements of the distinctive sound units (phonemes)
in a language.
For example, in English, the consonant groups (consonant clusters)
/spr/ and /str/ can occur at the beginning of a word, as in sprout,strain, but
they cannot occur at the end of a word. A description of the phonotactics of
English consonant clusters would include this information.

phrasal-prepositional verbn
see phrasal verb

phrasal-prepositional verb