Acrophone

Quick meaning: Acrophone is a noun meaning (linguistics, archaeology) The first sound of a word, or a glyph used to represent the first sound of the word it represents.

Meaning

(linguistics, archaeology) The first sound of a word, or a glyph used to represent the first sound of the word it represents.

Example Sentences

Where there are no certain cognates to an acrophone, but the identity of its letter is secure, I shall reconstruct the translation in square brackets.

There were three classes of predicted knowledge sources: (a) induced sublexical relations (i.e., induction of orthographic–phonological relations from the experience of print words), (b) acrophones from letter names, and (c) transfer from spelling experience.

Word Forms

• acrophones

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include acrophony, anlaut, initial, archiphoneme, archigrapheme, vocalization.

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