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

Researchers performed tests to determine a group of English learner students' aptitude in three cognitive and reading areas related to their native Spanish and English: phonological awareness, oral language development and working memory.

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