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phonological

phonological

1 7.5
About how sounds work in a language
  • adjective
  • /ˌfoʊnəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : fonológico
  • The emerging consensus is that dyslexia involves three types of deficits: orthographic coding, phonological coding, and rapid automatic naming.
  • phonological awareness
  • phonological representation
  • phonological cue

Examples

  • Recent evidence shows, however, that not only phonological skills but also orthographic skills are important in learning to read.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Overall, children learned to produce significantly more words to criterion in the no-cue and phonological conditions than in the semantic condition.

    Academic text (2011)

  • As it happens, what was missing in my app life was a phonological awareness profile.

    Blog text (13)

  • The first treatment emphasized phonological skills and rapid naming of printed words in isolation.

    Academic text (1990)

  • A Singing Map highlights the importance of aural skill development, specifically phonological awareness.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Reading teachers, therefore, plan and teach lessons designed to enhance phonemic awareness, a subset of phonological awareness.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Recent theoretical advances in understanding orthographic codes and their relationship to phonological codes in reading acquisition are reviewed.

    Academic text (1990)

  • However, ANCOVA results indicated that the academic skills group did significantly improve with respect to phonological awareness (TOPA).

    Academic text (1999)

  • We also administered a nonword repetition task (Dollaghan & Campbell, 1998) to assess short-term phonological memory.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Errors in phonological processing can lead to challenges in learning how to read.

Synonyms

phonologic
vsphonological
  • Specialized
8.1

About how a language uses sounds and their patterns

is the alternative adjective ending with -al for the same meaning

Compounds

phonological system
  • Specialized
7.3

A set of speech sounds and rules for using them in a language

Surface Forms

phonological positive

Morphology

phonological = phonology (transparent) = phonology + ical

The adjective is a standard derivation from the noun 'phonology' with '-ical' meaning 'relating to'.

Etymology

Phonological comes from an old Greek root phon- meaning 'sound' or 'voice' and from logos, seen in -logical, meaning 'study' or 'word'. So, phonological means 'about sounds' or 'the study of how sounds work in a language', which is why we use it for sound systems and pronunciation.