Associations to the word «Phonology»

Wiktionary

PHONOLOGY, noun. (linguistics) (uncountable) The study of the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, accent, intonation, and which sounds are distinctive units within a language.
PHONOLOGY, noun. (linguistics) (countable) The way sounds function within a given language.

Dictionary definition

PHONOLOGY, noun. The study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats