phonologically
Adverb
Meaning
phonologically (comparative more phonologically, superlative most phonologically)
(linguistics) In accordance with phonology.
Related terms
Examples
Difference from a vowel and semivowel While there are a number of similarities, diphthongs are not the same phonologically as a combination of a vowel and an approximant or glide.
Even if phonologically front vowels precede the suffix -nsa, grammatically it is preceded by a word controlled by a back vowel.
Phonological property A number of languages use breathy voicing in a phonologically contrastive way.
Unlike most languages, Kwak'wala semantic affixes phonologically attach not to the lexeme they pertain to semantically, but to the preceding lexeme.
Since lexicalization citation may modify lexemes phonologically and morphologically, it is possible that a single etymological source may be inserted into a single lexicon in two or more forms.
In this sense, it is syntactically independent but phonologically dependent, always attached to a host.