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

“I didn’t realize that there is actually a sequential order in phonology that students should be learning their sounds — biggest to smallest,” Hurt said.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021

At Wellesley College, Dr. Angela Carpenter teaches the foundation of language creation, which she dices into roughly six blocks: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, grammatical rules of verbs, and nouns and what they indicate.

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)