The study of the way sounds function in languages, including phonemes, syllable structure, stress, accent, intonation, and which sounds are distinctive units within a language.
The way sounds function within a given language; a phonological system.
A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:
The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
The form and structure of something.
A description of the form and structure of something.
The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise on sounds.
That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology.
The form and structure of an organism.
The branch of linguistics which studies the patterns by which words are formed from other words, including inflection, compounding, and derivation.
The study of the patterns of inflection of words or word classes in any given language; the study of the patterns in which morphemes combine to form words, and the rules for combination; morphemics; as, the morphology of Spanish verbs; also, the inflection patterns themselves.