Acrophone
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From acro- + -phone.
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