speech sounds in a language form patterns and how these sounds are used to convey meaning in munication.РPhonology is the subfield of linguistics that studies the structure and systematic patterning of sounds in human language. (P109)?Phonology is the study of the sound patterns and sound systems of languages.РThe term phonology is used in two ways. (P109)?On the one hand, it refers to a description of the sounds of a particular language and the rules governing the distribution of those sounds. Thus, we can talk about the phonology of English, German……(P109)РOn the other hand, it refers to that part of the general theory of human language that is concerned with the universal properties of natural language sound systems (i.e. properties reflected in many, if not ali, human languages) (P109)
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