Definition for PHO-NOL'O-GY

PHO-NOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. φωνη, sound, voice, and λογος, discourse.]

A treatise on sounds, or the science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including its various distinctions or subdivisions of tones. Du Ponceau.

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