phonological system
- noun
- /fəˌnɑːlədʒɪkəl ˈsɪstəm/
- Specialized
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sistema fonológico
- The phonological system of English includes sounds like /p/, /b/, and /s/ that are distinct from one another.
- a child's phonological system
Examples
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The phonological system of Cantonese is largely unintelligible to a speaker of Mandarin (Putonghua), although communication is possible using the written script.
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In contrast, phonological interventions seek to guide children's acquisition of the phonological system during the early years.
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However, this recommendation could be criticized on the grounds that it does not provide a complete picture of a child's phonological system.
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All six tests demonstrated changes in raw score means that indicated improvements in the tested children's phonological systems as age increased.
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This type of analysis is based on the assumption that when children acquire the phonological system of their language, they often make errors that apply to classes of speech sounds rather than to individual phonemes.
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The percentage of occurrence is used to identify those error patterns that are active in the phonological system of the child being tested, with the active error patterns serving as potential targets for intervention.
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Because the phonological systems of typically developing children are known to develop over time, one type of validity evidence that can be used to evaluate tests of phonological error patterns is developmental trends.
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This literature suggests that the entire phonological system, rather than particular phonemes, should be the SLP's concern, and that phonologically based intervention may be more appropriate for children with SSD.
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In LaBerge's (1979) quasi-hierarchical model, four units may be activated in the visual system: feature, letter, cluster, and word; and three units may be activated in the phonological system: letter, cluster, and word.
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Similarly, if the purpose of phonological intervention is to help children approximate the phonological system of adults from the same social and regional background, then vocalization of /l/ should also be removed from tests of phonological error patterns in communities where /l/-vocalization is a commonly observed phenomenon.
Academic text (2015)
Synonyms
The system of sounds used in a language to make words
The way small spoken parts are arranged to make words
A set of sounds used to tell words apart in a language
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is fully compositional: 'phonological' means relating to sound systems and 'system' means a set or collection, so together they denote the set of speech sounds and patterns in a language. This modifier+noun pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Phonological system joins phonological, meaning 'sound', and system, meaning 'a set of rules', so imagine a toolbox of sounds and simple rules that decide which sounds can be used and how they go together. That's why phonological system means the set of speech 'sounds' and their 'patterns' in a language.
