phonology
Evidence from English suggests that phonological acquisition in the early stages is word-based.
Data are gathered in clinical treatment of children with functional phonological delays.
There is evidence that phonological memory improves with language development.

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Linguistics: phonology & phonetics
accommodation
alliterative
alveolar
apheresis
aphesis
assonance
diphthong
homonym
intrusive
labial
labialize
labiodental
postconsonantal
retroflex
retroflexion
rhotic
rhyme
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unpronounceable
unrepeatable

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phonological
Research into semantic skills focuses less on the qualitative aspects of linguistic competence than does research into phonological and morphosyntactic skills.
Many students in my class were inspired by these readings to carry on further investigations, finding more data and phonetic support for the phonological claims.
They have established certain principles of phonetic and phonological change, and of the social motivation for change.
The relevance of the findings for cross-linguistic interaction in bilingual phonetic/phonological development is discussed.
What other phonetic cause(s) may be involved in this fascinating phonological process is certainly not obvious at this point in time.
In this sense they corresponded with purely phonological rather than morphosyntactic attributes of the input.
This account of the developmental differences is consistent with other studies of children's lexical and phonological representations.
The findings underline the importance of using specific rather than general tasks to assess phonology, phonological sensitivity, and phonological representations.
It may be that syllable structure may not play a role in the organization of lexical representations, but may influence the organization of phonological representations.
It will be important for future work to continue to address these issues by attempting to differentiate lexical from phonological representations.
A related issue is the influence of other phonological variables on lexical representations.
She argues, then, that learners incorporate phonological and distributional information to arrive at adult syntactic representations.
Do bilinguals activate phonological representations in one or both of their languages when naming words?
Phonological sequence learning is a significant predictor of receptive vocabulary learning.
These studies examined the roles of phonological, morphological, and orthographic features of nouns in gender classification.
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