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phonics, n. pl.|ˈfəʊnɪks, ˈfɒnɪks|
[f. as prec. + -ics.]
1. The science of sound in general; acoustics. Obs.
1683–4Phil. Trans XIV. 473 Three parts of our Doctrine of Acousticks: which are yet nameless, unless we call them Acousticks, Diacousticks, and Catacousticks, or (in another sence, but to as good purpose) Phonicks, Diaphonicks, and Cataphonicks. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1862) I. vii. 191 We are neither giving a treatise of optics or phonics, but a history of our own perceptions. 1842Brande Dict. Sci. etc. s.v., The science [of] direct, reflected, and refracted sound. In allusion to the corresponding branches of optics, these have been denominated phonics, cataphonics, and diaphonics.
2. The science of spoken sounds; phonetics.
1844Croker in Q. Rev. June 26 (title of article) Shuttle⁓worth's Phonics. 1870C. G. Smith tr. Domesday Bk. p. xlvii, Their knowledge of phonics must have guided them in spelling. 1961Amer. Speech XXXVI. 93 (title) Phonemics and phonics in historical phonology. 1976[see phonic a. (n.) 2].
†3. ‘The art of combining musical sounds’ (Busby Dict. Mus. 1811). Obs.
4. The correlations between sound and symbol in an alphabetic writing system; used spec. with reference to a method of teaching reading by associating letters or groups of letters with particular sounds (cf. phonic method s.v. phonic a. (n.) 2).
1908E. B. Huey Psychol. & Pedagogy of Reading iii. xiv. 280 Too often the line between phonics and reading is not drawn. 1960J. R. Newton Reading in your School iv. 63 Phonics is that part of phonetics which is used in reading and spelling. 1966K. De Hirsch et al. Predicting Reading Failure viii. 82 Five auditorily gifted children who read well had been intensively trained in phonics. 1966New Statesman 30 Dec. 962/3 Look and Say, Phonics and The Sentence Method are all at the moment acting as smokescreens which obscure a simple fact known to most mothers but few reading research experts. The most important thing in a reading beginner's life is a willing listener. 1973Daily Tel. 10 Apr. 18, I believe that most teachers of remedial reading would agree that more attention to phonics when teaching children to read would be an excellent thing. 1976Sci. Amer. July 8/2 They replaced the teaching of reading by phonics with the ‘look-see’ method. |