phonetic

(adjective)

Relating to the sounds of spoken language.

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Examples of phonetic in the following topics:

  • Common Spelling Errors

    • Phonetics is a field that studies the sounds of a language.
    • However, English phonetics can be tricky: In English, the pronunciation of a word does not always relate to the way it is spelled.
    • Here are some common phonetic irregularities:
    • For example: "concede" and "conceed" are the same phonetically, but only "concede" is the proper spelling.
    • "Right," for example, does not resemble its phonetic spelling whatsoever.
  • Levels of Processing

    • There are three levels of processing for verbal data: structural, phonetic, and semantic.
    • Phonetic processing is how we hear the word—the sounds it makes when the letters are read together.
    • Phonetic processing is deeper than structural processing; that is, we are more likely to remember verbal information if we process it phonetically.
    • To return to the example of trying to remember the name of a restaurant: if the name of the restaurant has no semantic meaning to you (for instance, if it's a word in another language, like "Vermicelli"), you might still be able to remember the name if you have processed it phonetically and can think, "It started with a V sound and it rhymed with belly."
  • Introduction to Language

    • Phonetics is the study of individual speech sounds; phonology is the study of phonemes, which are the speech sounds of an individual language.
    • These include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
  • The Mixteca-Puebla Tradition

    • Primarily producing work in stone, wood, and metal, they are well known for their "Codices," or phonetic pictures in which their history and genealogies were written.
  • Sensation to Perception

    • After processing the initial auditory signal, speech sounds are further processed to extract acoustic cues and phonetic information.
  • The Mixtec

    • The Mixtec are well known in the anthropological world for their Codices, or phonetic pictures, in which they wrote their history and genealogies in deerskin in the "fold-book" form.
  • Stages of Sleep

    • NREM, or non-REM, is pronounced phonetically as well, with the "N" standing alone ["en-rehm"].)
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