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phonologically

phonologically

6.9
In a way that is about the sounds and patterns in a language
  • adverb
  • /fəˌnɑːlədʒɪkli/
  • Specialized
translation icon : fonológicamente
  • The teacher explained that the two words are connected phonologically, meaning they sound similar.
  • phonologically identical words
  • phonologically related
  • phonologically biased

Examples

  • In essence, dialect can influence spelling, resulting in errors that are phonologically reflective of the individual's accent.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Students underlined the phonologically accurate familiar English word from among three incorrectly spelled words (e.g., lun, fep, kat).

    Academic text (2010)
  • The two words are related phonologically and semantically.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Alternatively, an SLP may use traditional target selection procedures but then use phonologically based methods.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The number of phonologically biased responses, out of a possible 10, was calculated for each child.

    Academic text (2012)
  • In typical VWP experiments, the names of the pictures are phonologically related to the auditory stimulus.

    Academic text (2013)
  • In Spanish, these two categories are nearly identical morphologically and phonologically, as well as comparable functionally and developmentally.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Phonologically related errors (formal errors and phonologically related nonwords) were an average of 35% of their errors (range 9%-88%).

    Academic text (2013)
  • The intervention assumed that word learning involves specifying a concept phonologically and semantically (Barrett, 1995) and was then designed to achieve this.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Second, children's linguistic profiles may influence their responses to intervention such that semantic intervention improves phonologically based WFDs and vice versa.

    Academic text (2012)

Surface Forms

phonologically positive

Morphology

phonologically = phonological (transparent) = phonology + al + ly

Standard adverb formation by adding '-ly' to the adjective 'phonological'.

Etymology

The word phonologically comes from the root phon-, which means 'sound' or 'voice' and is the same root you see in telephone and microphone. So phonologically means 'in terms of sound' or how a language uses its sounds.