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Noun: phonology  fu'nó-lu-jee
  1. (linguistics) the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes
    - phonemics

Derived forms: phonologies

Type of: descriptive linguistics

Encyclopedia: Phonology

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