phonological
Americanadjective
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of or relating to phonology, the study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in languages generally.
The course covers phonological processes such as vowel harmony, voicing, syllabication, and the placement of stress.
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of or relating to the inventory of sounds, and the patterns governing them, in a specific language.
I’m not used to this sound and don’t know how to pronounce it, as it doesn’t exist in my native English phonological system.
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Rhyming, meanwhile, is an early part of phonological awareness — the ability to recognize and manipulate sounds in oral language.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
The intervention incorporates comprehension strategy instruction in both reading and math, focusing and decoding, phonological awareness, vocabulary development, inferential thinking, contextualized learning and numeracy.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
The letters P and F, which are alien to the Hausa phonological system, also influence how many northern Nigerians pronounce words containing them, so "police" can come out as "folice".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2023
In other words, phonological connections can influence speech errors.
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2022
Relations among musical skills, phonological processing, and early reading ability in preschool children.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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