Phonology vs. Morphology

Phonologynoun

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.

Phonologynoun

The way sounds function within a given language; a phonological system.

Phonologynoun

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.

Phonologynoun

the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes

Phonology

Phonology is a branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds (or signs, in sign languages). The term also refers to the sound system of any particular language variety.

Morphologynoun

(uncountable) A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:

Morphologynoun

(linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).

Morphologynoun

(biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.

Morphologynoun

(geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.

Morphologynoun

(math) Mathematical morphology.

Morphologynoun

(countable) The form and structure of something.

Morphologynoun

(countable) A description of the form and structure of something.

Morphologynoun

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.

Morphologynoun

The form and structure of an organism.

Morphologynoun

The branch of linguistics which studies the patterns by which words are formed from other words, including inflection, compounding, and derivation.

Morphologynoun

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.

Morphologynoun

the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants

Morphologynoun

studies of the rules for forming admissible words

Morphologynoun

the admissible arrangement of sounds in words

Morphologynoun

the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms

Morphologynoun

the study of the forms of things.

Morphologynoun

the branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms, and with relationships between their structures.

Morphologynoun

the study of the forms of words, in particular inflected forms

Morphologynoun

a particular form, shape, or structure.