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phonology  

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  • Phonology, also called phonemics, is the study of the organization of speech sounds into a linguistic system of contrasting elements called phonemes. Unlike phonetics, phonology must account for native-speaker judgments as to what is contrastive and what is not. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Phonology]

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