phonological
/ˌfɑnəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.72 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, and accent.
Example Sentences
- "[...] 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.)."
- "I am not pleased with one or two of the noun cases (they are too similar to others) and I want to change the way that the Focus category (see Section 3.5 of the grammar) is manifested (using word-order instead of an infix or other phonological marker). All in all, the language is structured almost exactly as I wanted."
- "Each language has its own distinct phonological qualities which a counter can tap into with effect. It is not necessarily specific phonemes (though these can sometimes be diagnostic), but rather the frequency and phonotactic distribution of each disparate set of phonemes that go together in the speech stream in certain recognisable ways."
Etymology
Etymology tree English phonology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English phonological From phonology + -ical.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌfɑnəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/
- British English: /ˌfɒnəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/