“It may be mentioned also that the phonetist recognizes phenomena closely parallel to these in the structure of the syllable.”
“The veteran phonetist, Alexander Melville Bell, has accepted the presidency of the newly formed section.”
“Another issue contained a reprint from the New York Times, written by the American phonetist, Alexander Melville Bell.”
phonetics
(linguistics) The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.
“Using transliteration to convert Arabic phonetics into English proved difficult to standardize.”
“The phonetics and pronunciation of Arabic names, almost alien to English when transliterated, were confusing and, at times, inaccurate.”
“Bingley Little Theatre stages the play about the phonetics professor who teaches a Cockney flower girl to speak properly.”
phonetic
(linguistics) In such logographic writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a character (if any) that provides an indication of its pronunciation; contrasted with radical.
“The use of phoneticism and the fact that you stereotype all Southerners as homophobes is just as wrong as what Trainwreck said.”
“Indeed, in its fully realized phase, writing is bound to phoneticism and can truly represent speech.”
“Thomas, like most early proponents of phoneticism, saw glimpses of its presence, but fell short in the choice or presentation of convincing evidence.”
