generative phonology
noun Linguistics.
a theory of phonology that uses a set of rules to derive phonetic representations from abstract underlying forms.
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Nearby words
- generation z,
- generational,
- generative,
- generative cell,
- generative grammar,
- generative semantics,
- generative-transformational grammar,
- generatively,
- generativist,
- generator
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