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.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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