Phonetic



GRE

解释

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• adj. 语音的
• ［英］ adj. 语音的 ( about the sounds of human speech)
• ［记］ phon（声音）+etic

Webster Collegiate

adjective

• Etymology: New Latin ~us, from Greek phōnētikos, from phōnein to sound with the voice, from phōnē voice
• Date: 1819
• 1.
  • a. of or relating to spoken language or speech sounds
  • b. of or relating to the science of ~s
• 2. representing the sounds and other phenomena of speech: as
  • a. constituting an alteration of ordinary spelling that better represents the spoken language, that employs only characters of the regular alphabet, and that is used in a context of conventional spelling
  • b. representing speech sounds by means of symbols that have one value only
  • c. employing for speech sounds more than the minimum number of symbols necessary to represent the significant differences in a speaker's speech
• ? ~ally adverb

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