Explore Phonetic through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like phonic or acoustics. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Phonetic in a sentence
Related words
Phonetic meaning
- Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
- Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes).
- Relating to the spoken rather than written form of a word or name, as opposed to orthographic.
Using Phonetic
- The main meaning on this page is: Relating to the sounds of spoken language. | Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes). | Relating to the spoken rather than written form of a word or name, as opposed to orthographic.
- Useful related words include: phonic, language unit, linguistic unit, acoustics.
- In the example corpus, phonetic often appears in combinations such as: the phonetic, of phonetic, international phonetic.
Context around Phonetic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Phonetic
- In this selection, "phonetic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, americanist, uralic, based, transcription, notation and alphabet stand out and add context to how "phonetic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a phonetic equivalent might and alphabet based phonetic notations latin. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "phonetic" sits close to words such as alejandro, antennas and blond, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with phonetic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s probably due to the phonetic play. (8 words)
And I had to edit that language, which is not really phonetic. (12 words)
After this it was mainly used as a phonetic gloss for Mongols learning Chinese characters. (15 words)
Advancements in technology now allow certain characters to render accurately. citation In Chinese, the practice of providing phonetic cues via ruby is rare, but does occur systematically in grade-school level text books or dictionaries. (35 words)
Katakana has a long history, dating back to the Heian Period in the ninth century, when Buddhist monks developed the phonetic writing system from existing Chinese kanji characters as a form of shorthand. (33 words)
A phonetic equivalent might be that the system would need more than just close word context, to distinguish between 'The doctor needs more patience' and 'The doctor needs more patients'," says Karas. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Phonetic transcription main Lowercase Greek gamma is used in the Americanist phonetic notation and Uralic Phonetic Alphabet to indicate voiced consonants.
Based on its phonetic value in Modern Greek, gamma has also been introduced in a number of modern Latin-alphabet based phonetic notations ( Latin (or latinized) gamma Ɣ).
Later, the practice was continued by Americanist anthropologists and linguists who still follow this convention in phonetic transcription to the present day (see Americanist phonetic notation ).
Occasionally okurigana coincide with the phonetic (rebus) component of phono-semantic Chinese characters, which reflects that they fill the same role of phonetic complement.
On Indic language wikiprojects Phonetic facility provided initially was java-based later supported by Narayam extension for phonetic input facility.
See also * Japanese writing system * Bopomofo (Zhùyīn fúhào, "phonetic symbols"), a phonetic system of 37 characters for writing Chinese developed in the 1900s and common in Taiwan.
The major system (also called the phonetic number system, phonetic mnemonic system, or Herigone's mnemonic system) is a mnemonic technique used to aid in memorizing numbers.
Tolkien has used multiple modes for English, including full writing and ómatehtar alphabetic modes, phonetic full modes and phonetic ómatehtar modes known from documents published after his death.
Her web store (a phonetic spelling of how her last name is pronounced) features an LED-powered calendar and a ring with a Phillips head screwdriver fashioned into it.
It’s probably due to the phonetic play.
And I had to edit that language, which is not really phonetic.
A phonetic equivalent might be that the system would need more than just close word context, to distinguish between 'The doctor needs more patience' and 'The doctor needs more patients'," says Karas.
A mondegreen is a mishearing of a phrase that occurs due to the phonetic similarity of words.
It said on Thursday: “The football player’s fame counteracts the visual and phonetic similarities” with Massi.
Katakana has a long history, dating back to the Heian Period in the ninth century, when Buddhist monks developed the phonetic writing system from existing Chinese kanji characters as a form of shorthand.
The name is French explorers’ phonetic spelling of the native word “pakan,” meaning hard-shelled nut.
A chart of the Tamil consonant phonemes in the International Phonetic Alphabet follows: The plosives have voiced allophones in predictable contexts.
Advancements in technology now allow certain characters to render accurately. citation In Chinese, the practice of providing phonetic cues via ruby is rare, but does occur systematically in grade-school level text books or dictionaries.
After processing the initial auditory signal, speech sounds are further processed to extract acoustic cues and phonetic information.
After this it was mainly used as a phonetic gloss for Mongols learning Chinese characters.
Common combinations with phonetic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: