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<p><b>Phonology</b> (formerly also <b>phonemics</b> or <b>phonematics</b>) is the branch of <a href="page.php?w=linguistics">linguistics</a> that concerns how languages organize the foundational elements that make their words. In spoken languages, these are <a href="page.php?w=Phoneme">phonemes</a> like vowel and consonant sounds that affect meaning. Examples of this effect can be found in comparisons of English words like bat and gnat. In <a href="page.php?w=sign_language">sign language</a>s, these are components of signs such as <a href="page.php?w=Handshape">hand shape</a></p><p>
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