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• a  of or relating to speech sounds
  phonetic transcription
• a  of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds
  phonetic analysis

• According to prevailing theory, the reading centers of the brain break words down into sound units known as phonemes and recognize them as the elements of a phonetic code.
• Included are icons for each turn (giving you a rough idea of the turn's degree, sharp or gradual), plus, if you choose, phonetic readings of the street names you actually hear .
• The phonetic way seems to be winning: a schoolteacher will soon be trained in it, and formal lessons could start next year.

• phonic

News & Articles

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• If There's A Hip-Hop Scene In Alaska, You Have No Excuses
  from left to right: Aaron, Elliott, Manner, Soapy Smiff, Organik, Phonetic, and Adamn Excuse Guys are the worst. These dudes "would be" chasing their dreams if they just knew the right people, or didn't have to work so much, or lived in a better place. Instead, they walk around miserable, pissed-off that life didn't deal [...]
  June 7, 2013 - MTV

Quotes

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• Jean-Francois Champollion in Washington Post
  Hieroglyphic writing is a complex system,wrote Champollion, "a script at the same time figurative, symbolic, and phonetic, in one and the same text, in one and the same sentence, and, if I may put it, almost in one and the same word."
• Dana Gioia in Buffalo News
  The Internet is the most powerful informational tool ever developed by humanity, except perhaps the phonetic alphabet,Gioia said.
• Ambika Soni in Telugu Portal
  The Chinese language is phonetic based and we took extra effort and care while making the translations. It was a tough task to get 60 pages translated to the language,Tourism Minister Ambika Soni told reporters after the opening ceremony.