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phonology

 noun
     
Related topics: Linguistics
pho‧nol‧o‧gy [uncountable] technical
SL the study of the system of speech sounds in a language, or the system of sounds itself
—phonologist noun [countable]
—phonological adjective
—phonologically adverb
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