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pho·net·ics

(fō-net'iks),

The science of speech and of pronunciation.

phonology

(fo-nol'o-je) [ phono- + -logy]

The study of the speech sounds of a particular language at a particular time or place (e.g., 17th-century Mexican Spanish).

See: phonetics

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However, if dolphins do have languages, the phonologies of these languages will likely be very different from those of human languages.

It would not be contradictory to imagine languages with phonologies based in articulatory and perceptual systems that do not actually exist.

An analysis of phonology and linguistic interfaces as a new case for a biopsychological foundation for linguistics

Rose's system of transcription is not at all the same as the one used by Leslau in the corresponding Phonologies chapter.

Neither dialect is mentioned in the discussion of Berber classification in the corresponding Phonologies chapter.

Morphologies of Asia and Africa

(3) Furthermore, recent work in the history of traditional Chinese koines points to a principle that can be provisionally called the "non-linearity of koine phonologies." To wit, successive koine phonologies in many cases did not even evolve from each other.

The Chiehyunn system and the current state of Chinese historical phonology

With his methodological framework thus established, Simmons proceeds in chapters 4 and 5 to the heart of the book, an analysis of the phonologies of two dialects whose affiliation has been uncertain, those of Old Jintan and [CHINESE CHARACTER NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Danyang [CHINESE CHARACTER NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].

Chinese Dialect Classification: A Comparative Approach to Harngjou, Old Jintarn, and Common Northern Wu. (Reviews of Books)

The Phonologies of Asia and Africa is a compilation of studies of languages chosen from a region extending from central Africa to the Caucasus.