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Webster 1913 Edition


Phonological

{

Phoˊno-log′ic

,

Phoˊno-log′ic-al

, }
Adj.
Of or pertaining to phonology.

Webster 1828 Edition


Phonological

PHONOLOG'ICAL

,
Adj.
Pertaining to phonology.

Definition 2024


phonological

phonological

English

Adjective

phonological (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to phonology.
    • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, ISBN 0-521-34750-5, page 5:
      [...] Phonological competence is also reflected in intuitions about phonological structure: any English speaker intuitively feels, for example, that the sequence 'black bird' can either be a single phonological word (BLACKbird, with primary stress on black = a species of bird, like thrush, robin, etc.), or two independent phonological words (BLACK BIRD or black BIRD = bird which is black, as opposed to 'white bird', 'yellow bird', etc.).

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