entrainments

Example:Studying entrainments is an important part of phonological research in linguistics.

Definition:The branch of linguistics concerned with the sounds of languages; the study of the relationship among a language's sounds and their uses in the form of words.

Example:The entrainments of consonants often demonstrate vowel influence over consonant sounds.

Definition:The way in which vowels can alter or weaken consonants in adjacent syllables, a process often seen in phonological studies.

Example:Through linguistic analysis, researchers have documented various entrainments in different languages.

Definition:The systematic process of describing and explaining the structure, usage, and formation of words and the rules that govern them within a language.