noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The study of phonemes and their written representations. uncountable
2. 2
   the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

phonologyapplied phonologycontrastive analysisphoneme analysisphoneme inventory analysisphonological analysis

Etymology

From phoneme + -ics.