phonology

1. Phonology is the study of distinctive sound structures of a language. A speaker of a language may not know the rules of phonology explicitly but definitely knows what can/cannot be a part of that language. For example, any speaker of Turkish knows that /n/ sound in the word “sing”does not exist in Turkish. This is the phonological knowledge of a language. In phonology, sounds are shown in slashes “/ /”.
   • But this doesn't necessarily mean that the locus of thought is natural language representations (words, syntax, phonology).
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2. the speech sounds of a particular language; the study of these sounds
   • The use of nonstandard phonology by the two groups was assessed using the word reading, nonword reading, and oral picture-naming tests.
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