acrophone
acrophone noun: the first sound of a word, or a glyph used to represent the first sound of the word it represents.
Noun
acrophone (plural acrophones)
- The first sound of a word, or a glyph used to represent the first sound of the word it represents
- 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.1999, G. Brian Thompson et al., “Learning correspondences between letters and phonemes without explicit instruction”, in Applied Psycholinguistics, →DOI
- 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.2006, Gordon James Hamilton, The origins of the West Semitic alphabet in Egyptian scripts, page 26
Forms of acrophone
| plural | acrophones |
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Origin of acrophone
From acro- + -phone.
Words formed from acrophone
Questions about acrophone
- What does acrophone mean?
- Acrophone means the first sound of a word, or a glyph used to represent the first sound of the word it represents.
- What part of speech is acrophone?
- Acrophone is a noun.
- What is the plural of acrophone?
- The plural of acrophone is acrophones.
Words near acrophone in the dictionary
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