Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a phonologic manner; as regards phonology.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb linguistics In accordance with
phonology .
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Examples
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Today, researchers know that children who are more phonologically aware when they enter kindergarten have a better shot at easy reading.
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Based on this, it is likely that some innovated words and meanings have been adopted from one language into the other, and, what is more, that because they are so recently diverged and so phonologically similar, such adoptions may be virtually impossible to identify as transfers.
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Regular sound correspondence helps us determine whether two phonologically similar words are in fact cognates, loans, or chance resemblances.
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The fact that 'en' is pretty similar to 'in' orthographically and phonologically probably doesn't help either.
On welcoming in DC 2009
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Its main points seem to be that loanwords can be adapted either phonetically or phonologically.
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Phoenix: What is harder to explain phonologically though, is the development of Greek voiceless aspirated from Model voiced consonants.
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008
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In Principles of Historical Linguistics by Hans Hock1, some interesting insight can be gleaned regarding the process of metathesis and its reasons in world languages: "Most commonly, the 'specific structural purpose' of regular metathesis lies in converting phonologically or perceptually 'marked' structures into more acceptable ones."
Pre-IE Syncope and possibly expanding the Metathesis rule 2008
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In Principles of Historical Linguistics by Hans Hock1, some interesting insight can be gleaned regarding the process of metathesis and its reasons in world languages: "Most commonly, the 'specific structural purpose' of regular metathesis lies in converting phonologically or perceptually 'marked' structures into more acceptable ones."
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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What is harder to explain phonologically though, is the development of Greek voiceless aspirated from Model voiced consonants.
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008
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More to the point, Bomhard's Nostratic and Muscovite Nostratic are phonologically identical; Bomhard reconstructs aspirated plosives and affricates instead of the Muscovite ejective ones, and the Moscow School reconstructs pulmonic voiceless ones instead of Bomhard's ejectives.
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