Editing Phonology (section)

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* '''Phonology''' — The study of the mental organization of speech sounds.
* '''Phonetics''' — The study of the physical properties and production of speech sounds.
* '''Phoneme''' — The smallest unit of sound that can change the meaning of a word (e.g., /p/ vs /b/ in 'pat' and 'bat').
* '''Allophone''' — A variation of a phoneme that does not change the meaning (e.g., the aspirated 'p' in 'pin' vs the unaspirated 'p' in 'spin').
* '''Minimal Pair''' — Two words that differ by only one sound (e.g., 'ship' and 'sheep').
* '''Syllable''' — A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound, with or without surrounding consonants.
* '''Phonotactics''' — The rules governing the possible combinations of sounds in a language (e.g., English allows 'str-' at the start of a word, but not 'rt-').
* '''Prosody''' — The patterns of stress and intonation in a language.
* '''Tone''' — The use of pitch to distinguish word meanings (common in languages like Mandarin Chinese).
* '''Assimilation''' — A sound change where some phonemes change to become more similar to neighboring sounds (e.g., 'unbelievable' sounding like 'umbelievable').
* '''Elision''' — The omission of a sound or syllable when speaking (e.g., 'camera' becoming 'camra').
* '''Diphthong''' — A complex vowel sound that glides from one position to another (e.g., the 'oi' in 'boy').
* '''Voicing''' — Whether the vocal cords vibrate during the production of a sound (/b/ is voiced, /p/ is voiceless).
* '''IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)''' — A standardized system for representing the sounds of spoken languages.
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