The sound patterns of
language
Phonology
Phonology is essentially the description of the
systems and patterns of speech sounds in a
language. It is, in effect, based on a theory of
what every speaker of a language
unconsciously knows about the sound patterns
of that language.
Phonology is about the underlying design, the
blueprint of each sound type, which serves as
the constant basis of all the variations in
different physical articulations of that sound
type in different contexts.