lexicophonology

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lexicophonology (uncountable)

(linguistics) The adaptation of word forms to reflect pronunciation.
- 1969, Joan C. Baratz-Snowden, Roger W. Shuy, Teaching Black Children to Read, page 217:
  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 […]
- 2012, Michael Arbib, Neural Models of Language Processes, page 66:
  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.