Concept cluster: Communication > Phonetics and phonology (4)
adj
Relating to or having the property of acrophony.
adj
Of or relating to an affricate.
n
(phonology) Any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme.
adj
(phonology) Of or pertaining to articulation; phonetic.
adj
(mathematics) Being or relating to the look-and-say sequence.
adj
Of or relating to a behaviorist style of teaching foreign languages, based on drills and repetition.
n
The audiolingual method of language learning.
adv
Using the audiolingual method of language learning.
adj
(phonology) Of or pertaining to autosegmental phonology, a framework of phonological analysis that views phonological representations as consisting of parallel tiers of segments, rather than just one linear sequence of segments.
adj
Relating to coarticulation
n
(phonology) A particular dialectal variant of a phoneme; all the dialectal variants of a phoneme, considered as a whole.
adj
Of or pertaining to enunciation.
adj
(phonology, phonetics) Of or pertaining to epenthesis.
n
The development of speech.
adj
(philosophy) Of or pertaining to the origin of speech.
adj
Related to the origin or primordial development of language; related to glottogony.
n
(linguistics) A combination of grapheme and phoneme.
adj
Relating to the relationship between how words or characters look and how they sound.
n
Alternative spelling of homoiophone [A word similar — but not identical — in pronunciation with another; compare homophone.]
adj
Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound.
adj
(phonetics) Of the same tone.
n
A word that utilizes sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.
n
An isogloss indicating where a certain phone, or speech segment, is found.
n
A person who favours manualism over oralism in teaching language to the deaf.
n
A phonetic algorithm for indexing words by their English pronunciation.
n
(linguistics) An awareness of phonology
n
(linguistics) The microdynamic behaviour of vowels in a particular language
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to a term consisting of one word; one-worded, singleworded.
n
A single, indivisible morpheme
adj
(linguistics) Consisting of only one morpheme; not divisible into smaller parts.
adj
Having a specified type or number of morphemes.
adj
(linguistics) Relating to morphophonemes or morphophonemics.
adj
(linguistics) Relating to morphophonetics.
n
A branch of linguistics concerned with phonemes, and the phonological representation of morphemes
adj
(linguistics) Relating to morphotonemics.
adj
Relating to onomatology, the study of the origins of names.
n
Synonym of phonology: the study of pronunciation.
adj
(rare) Palindromic (of, relating to, or being a palindrome).
adj
(linguistics) Relating to paralanguage
n
(phonetics) A percussive phone.
adj
Relating to phonation.
adj
Pertaining to phonemes.
n
(linguistics) The property of being a phoneme.
adj
(linguistics) Relating to phonemes.
n
(linguistics) state of being phonemic
adj
(linguistics) Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes).
n
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see phonetic, determinative.
n
(linguistics) The viewpoint that sounds themselves have meaning.
adj
of, or pertaining to phonetics.
n
The phonetic representation of sounds
n
One who advocates a phonetic system of spelling.
n
One versed in phonetics; a phonologist.
n
Phonetics.
adj
Alternative form of phonosemantic [Combining phonetic and semantic components, as with more than eighty percent of Chinese characters. (a way of creating Han characters by combining a component that indicates the meaning with a component that indicates the pronunciation)]
adj
Relating to phonetic articulation
n
The idea that sounds and speech are inherently superior to (or more natural than) written language.
adj
Pertaining to the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, and accent.
adj
(linguistics) Sound-bearing; said of certain characters in otherwise ideographic languages.
adj
Combining phonetic and semantic components, as with more than eighty percent of Chinese characters. (a way of creating Han characters by combining a component that indicates the meaning with a component that indicates the pronunciation)
n
(linguistics) the application of statistical methods to phonology and phonetics
adj
(linguistics, phonology) Pertaining to phonotactics.
n
(phonology, uncommon) The total sum of a language's phonological or phonotactic rules.
adj
Of or pertaining to pronunciation; pronunciative.
adj
Of or relating to pronunciation.
adj
Of a book: including phonetic notation to aid in pronouncing the words.
n
(historical) A form of phonotypy that preserves some of the non-phonetic spellings of English, for example in using sh and zh rather than ʃ and ʒ.
adj
Of or pertaining to a semivowel.
n
(linguistics) A branch of linguistics studying sociolinguistic aspects of speech sounds; the interaction between sociolinguistics and phonetics.
adj
Of or relating to a suprasegmental.
n
(phonology) In autosegmental phonology, a segment, usually a syllable nucleus, which can be associated with a tone.
adj
(linguistics) of, or relating to tonemes or a language that uses tonemes

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