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lexicophonology

lexicophonology noun: the adaptation of word forms to reflect pronunciation.

Noun

lexicophonology (uncountable)

  1. The adaptation of word forms to reflect pronunciation.
    • Although regional variation in Negro-dialect lexicophonology should not be severe enough to require extensive modification of standard-English word spellings in Negro-dialect reading materials, there may be a few cases in which dialect pronunciations will be too deviant […]1969, Joan C. Baratz-Snowden, Roger W. Shuy, Teaching Black Children to Read, page 217
    • I would like to think that it is in these areas—lexicosemantics, lexicophonology, the study of anomias, the developmental characteristics of the lexicon, and the biological characterizations of the association cortex—that a neurobiology of language and artificial intelligence models will emerge to...2012, Michael Arbib, Neural Models of Language Processes, page 66

Origin of lexicophonology

From lexico- + phonology.

Questions about lexicophonology

What does lexicophonology mean?
Lexicophonology means the adaptation of word forms to reflect pronunciation.
What part of speech is lexicophonology?
Lexicophonology is a noun.

Words near lexicophonology in the dictionary

  1. lexiconophilia
  2. lexiconophilist
  3. lexiconophilists
  4. lexicons
  5. lexicophonological
  6. lexicophonology
  7. lexicopragmatic
  8. lexicosemantic
  9. lexicosemantically
  10. lexicosemantics
  11. lexicostatistic

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