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
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 subsequent changes in orthography are due mainly to changes of sound, and find their explanation in the phonology.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing phonology
Common Senses: Phon ("Sound")
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The Mother Tongue
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phon (sound)
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