Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe adaptation of word forms to reflect pronunciation.
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 […]
1969, Joan C. Baratz-Snowden, Roger W. Shuy, Teaching Black Children to Read, page 2171 more example
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.
2012, Michael Arbib, Neural Models of Language Processes, page 66
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lexicophonology. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lexicophonology
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