lexicophonology

lexicophonology

English

Etymology

lexico- +‎ phonology

Noun

lexicophonology (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) The adaptation of word forms to reflect pronunciation.
   • 1969, Joan C. Baratz-Snowden, ‎Roger W. Shuy, Teaching Black Children to Read (page 217)

     Although regional variation in Negro-dialect lexicophonology should not be severe enough to require extensive modification of standard-English word spellings in Negro-dialect reading materials, there may be a few cases in which dialect pronunciations will be too deviant […]

   • 2012, Michael Arbib, Neural Models of Language Processes (page 66)

     I would like to think that it is in these areas—lexicosemantics, lexicophonology, the study of anomias, the developmental characteristics of the lexicon, and the biological characterizations of the association cortex—that a neurobiology of language and artificial intelligence models will emerge to fill the existing gap between language and the brain.

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