phonology

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When designing the phonology of the Yautja language, Watkins took into account the aliens’ physiology.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2025

"If you think of Sindarin - one of the two main Elvish languages - it's very much based on the phonology and grammar, at points, of Welsh," she said.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2025

By the end of last year, her first full school year teaching this method, Hurt said 80% of her first-grade class had aced a phonology test — nothing she’d seen before in previous years.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2022

Simlish’s distinctive sounds, which Kauker likens to a Midwestern-Latin hybrid, comprise its phonetics and phonology.

From The Verge • Feb. 7, 2020

The explanation of this rests on an elementary lesson in Old English phonology, which it will do the reader no harm to 62 acquire.

From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)