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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
In linguistics , the study of the sound systems of languages. Its main activity is the discovery of the distinctive sounds, or phonemes , of the language. A person who is phonologically aware can create rhymes and use alliteration . People with speaking and reading difficulties can have problems with the blending of component sounds. The precise definition of a phoneme has caused much difficulty, but a working definition is that phonemes are the distinctive phonic elements of a language. There are several varieties of t in English (phonetically, there are different varieties of t in the words ‘top’, ‘stop’, ‘tree’, ‘bottle’, ‘alter’, ‘lightning’, and ‘antler’). They are, however, of no distinctive value within the system of the language: it is impossible in English to have a pair of words differentiated solely by the distinction between two of these varieties of t . The distinction between the variants is determined solely by phonetic context. Variants that do not change meaning in a…
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Full text Article Phonology

From Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies the patternings of sound in language(s), and formalizes them by means of networks of distinctive features and higher abstract structure organized into levels of representation related by rules. The sounds musicians make are, typically, not random, …
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Full text Article Phonology

From Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional Individuals
Phonology is a study of the rule-based system underlying phoneme development and speech production. The focus is not on the emergence of specific phonemes but rather on sound classes such as stridency and nasality. The organizational schemata for the formation and use of the phoneme system are the…
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From The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences
As opposed to phonetics, which deals with the properties of sounds from a language-independent point of view, phonology constitutes the study of the sound structure of units (morphemes, words, phrases, utterances) within individual languages. Its goal is to elucidate the system of distinctions in…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
study of the sound systems of languages. It is distinguished from phonetics , which is the study of the production, perception, and physical properties of speech sounds; phonology attempts to account for how they are combined, organized, and convey meaning in particular languages. Only a fraction of…
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Full text Article Phonology

From Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders
Articulation ; Speech Phonology refers to the system of speech sounds within a particular language. Phonology differs from articulation in that phonology is concerned with the rule-governed ways in which speech sounds are used and interact with each other to encode meaning within a language, while…
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Full text Article phonology

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
In linguistics , the study of the sound systems of languages. Its main activity is the discovery of the distinctive sounds, or phonemes , of the language. A person who is phonologically aware can create rhymes and use alliteration . People with speaking and reading difficulties can have problems…
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Full text Article GENERATIVE PHONOLOGY

From Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
A branch of generative grammar that aims to establish a set of rules, principles or constraints capable of producing the surface phonetic forms of a language and of modelling the internalised linguistic knowledge of the native speaker. Generative phonology was a central idea in linguistic research…
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Phonological development refers to the acquisition of the sounds appropriate to a language (see s. 2 ) and their organisation into speech patterns. Observations of children’s first words indicate that early phonological and semantic development are related; children are influenced in part to say…
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Full text Article Phonology, Computational

From Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
Various methods of computational modeling of phonological processing have been developed, especially in speech and language technology but also for cognitive models. Computer programs for various phonological tasks have been developed in several areas. Speech synthesis and recognition devices, for…
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Full text Article Phonological Awareness

From Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional Individuals
Phonological Awareness
Phonological awareness is the ability for students to be able to hear, identify, and manipulate sounds in words. Phonological awareness includes four basic levels: word, syllable, onset/rime, and phoneme. Each level increases in skill difficulty with a corresponding hierarchy of instructional tasks…
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