phonology

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pho=nol=o=gy

CIDE DICTIONARY

phonology, n. [Phono- + -logy.].

 The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

phonology, n. the study of sounds in a language.

Derivative

phonological adj. phonologically adv. phonologist n.

THESAURUS

phonology

ablaut, acoustic phonetics, articulatory phonetics, betacism, bowwow theory, comparative linguistics, derivation, descriptive grammar, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, dingdong theory, etymology, generative grammar, glossematics, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, gradation, grammar, grammatical analysis, grammatical theory, grammaticality, graphemics, historical linguistics, language study, lexicology, lexicostatistics, linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, mathematical linguistics, morphology, morphophonemics, mutation, orthoepy, paleography, parsing, philology, phonetics, phrase-structure grammar, psycholinguistics, rhotacism, rules of language, school grammar, semantics, sociolinguistics, sound shift, stratificational grammar, structural grammar, structuralism, syntactics, tagmemic analysis, traditional grammar, transformational grammar, transformational linguistics, umlaut

ROGET THESAURUS

phonology

Voice

N voice, vocality, organ, lungs, bellows, good voice, fine voice, powerful voice, musical voice, intonation, tone of voice, vocalization, cry, strain, utterance, prolation, exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis, enunciation, articulation, articulate sound, distinctness, clearness, of articulation, stage whisper, delivery, accent, accentuation, emphasis, stress, broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native accent, foreign accent, pronunciation, homonym, orthoepy, cacoepy, euphony, gastriloquism, ventriloquism, ventriloquist, polyphonism, polyphonist, phonology, vocal, phonetic, oral, ejaculatory, articulate, distinct, stertorous, euphonious, how sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman, the organ of the soul, thy voice is a celestial melody.

Sound

N sound, noise, strain, accent, twang, intonation, tone, cadence, sonorousness, audibility, resonance, voice, aspirate, ideophone, rough breathing, acoustics, phonics, phonetics, phonology, phonography, diacoustics, diaphonics, phonetism, sounding, soniferous, sonorous, sonorific, resonant, audible, distinct, stertorous, phonetic, phonic, phonocamptic, a thousand trills and quivering sounds, forensis strepitus.