Example sentences for: phonetic

How can you use “phonetic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • phonetic rendition of video.

  • There is some confusion in the key, where the spelled characters represented by the phonetic transcription are underscored, and the form for General American start should have been start, not start.

  • Ingeniously, certain differences between families were explained by various phonetic shifts that (inexplicably) took place in one language group but not in another.

  • But, to the inherent music of their language (would Rigoletto sound the same if we knew Giuseppe Verdi as Joseph Green?), the Italians added something more--a game of phonetic theme and variation seemingly unmatched in other countries, a game whose wild rules allow Francesco to become Frances-chielli or Francescuzzi, Cesco or Schetti, Cicco or Zotti, Cicconetti or Ciccarelli .

  • Aside from the linguistic challenges they pose, these ancient artificial, noncewords, with their sonorous, cantillating, rhyming, and rhythmical variations on phonetic themes, have intrigued and fascinated scholars who try to divine the rules governing their formation.


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