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Phonology



Phonology is the study of how sounds are organized and used in natural languages. The phonological system of a language includes. an inventory of sounds and their features, and. rules which specify how sounds interact with each other.



noun

the system of contrastive relationships among the speech sounds that constitute the fundamental components of a language.

the branch of linguistics that deals with systems of sounds (including or excluding phonetics), within a language or between different languages.







What is Phonology?



Phonology is the study of the patterns of sounds in a language and across languages. Put more formally, phonology is the study of the categorical organisation of speech sounds in languages; how speech sounds are organised in the mind and used to convey meaning. In this section of the website, we will describe the most common phonological processes and introduce the concepts of underlying representations for sounds versus what is actually produced, the surface form.



Phonology can be related to many linguistic disciplines, including psycholinguistics, cognitive science, sociolinguistics and language acquisition. Principles of phonology can also be applied to treatments of speech pathologies and innovations in technology. In terms of speech recognition, systems can be designed to translate spoken data into text. In this way, computers process the language like our brains do. The same processes that occur in the mind of a human when producing and receiving language occur in machines. One example of machines decoding language is the popular intelligence system, Siri.