phonology

  1. Noun.  (linguistics, uncountable) The study of the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, accent, intonation, and which sounds are distinctive units within a language.
  2. Noun.  (linguistics, countable) The way sounds function within a given language.

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