phonology

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Much of the confusion of terms and indistinctness of principles, both in Ethnology and Phonology, are due to the combined study of these heterogeneous sciences.

From Critiques and Addresses by Huxley, Thomas Henry

Phonology, fō-nol′ō-ji, n. the science of the sounds of the voice, the manner in which these are combined in any language: phonetics.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

The Phonology is followed by an Accidence, which discusses the peculiarities of dialect grammar.

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

The grammar is divided into three principal parts: Phonology, Morphology, and Syntax.

From First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881 by Various

In Phonology fifty different sounds are recognized, including simple and compound consonants, the vowels in different quantities, and the diphthongs.

From First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881 by Various