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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin