Meaning of acrophone | Babel Free

Definitions

The first sound of a word, or a glyph used to represent the first sound of the word it represents

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.”

“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.”

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