phonological

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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

It also implies that without native language instruction in schools, students may not be enhancing their oral language development and phonological awareness skills, despite having innate strengths in their native language, he said.

From Science Daily • Oct. 17, 2023

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

Accent is the phonological part of a dialect.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2023

Relations among musical skills, phonological processing, and early reading ability in preschool children.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin