单词 | phoneticism |
释义 | phoneticismn. 1. Phonetic quality; a phonetic system of writing or spelling; a particular instance of this, a phonetic spelling. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun] > phonetic transcription > phonetic spelling phoneticism1849 phoneticization1915 1849 Fraser's Mag. Oct. 421/2 Mr. Ellis points to his 100,000 copies of phonetic publications..as a proof that..phoneticism is not impossible. 1885 G. L. Gomme Hist. T. Hickathrift p. iv There are too few phoneticisms and dialect words to make it probable that the print in the Pepysian collection is the one directly derived from popular tradition. 1938 Better Eng. Nov. 44/1 Phoneticism is not a noble progressive movement. It is only an annoying attack on a superior language which will never give up its proud fundamental structure. 1977 Daily Tel. 24 Feb. 18 Probably the most bizarre example of phoneticism I have ever come across was an 11-year-old's spelling of the word ‘usual’—‘yousyouall’. 1997 P. Bronson First $20 Million is Hardest 213 At first, Salman figured Andy was just substituting ‘economical’ phoneticisms for full spelling, such as the word ‘brito’ instead of ‘burrito’. 2. Use of the criterion of phonetic similarity to determine the phonemes of a language. rare. ΚΠ 1952 A. Cohen Phonemes of Eng. ii. 24 The same objection to phoneticism in phonemic analysis can be raised against Trubetzkoy's handling of the problem how to decide whether we have to do with one or more phonemes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1849 |
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