Phonology (noun)
fon-ol-o-gee
the study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation.
First recorded in 1790–1800; phono- + -logy
Example sentences
“He was chosen for the job learning about dialects because he’d studied phonology.”
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