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phonologic

phonologic is the alternative form of phonological.

Meaning of phonological

Adjective

phonological (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to phonology.
    • [...] 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...1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 5
  2. Pertaining to the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, and accent.

Questions about phonologic

What is phonologic the alternative form of?
Phonologic is the alternative form of phonological.

Words near phonologic in the dictionary

  1. phonolitic
  2. phonolocate
  3. phonolocated
  4. phonologer
  5. phonologers
  6. phonologic
  7. phonological
  8. phonological hierarchies
  9. phonological hierarchy
  10. phonological phrase
  11. phonological phrases

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