If you’re a parent, you’ve probably noticed how your baby’s sounds change over time. At first, they make simple consonant- or vowel-only sounds like “mmmm” and “aaa”. But then something exciting happens: they start combining consonants and vowels in sounds like “bababa”. These combinations are a big deal for language development. They are a sign […]
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Phonology: the study of speech sounds in the mind
What is Phonology? Did you know that you had a set of unconscious rules about how you can arrange sounds in your language? Phonology is a field of study in linguistics that examines the patterns of sounds within a language and across different languages. It aims to study how we, as humans, mentally organize the […]