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Acrophony vs Acrophone - What's the difference?

acrophony | acrophone | Derived terms |

Acrophone is a derived term of acrophony.



As nouns the difference between acrophony and acrophone

is that acrophony is naming letters in an alphabetic writing system using words whose initial sounds are represented by the respective letters while acrophone is the first sound of a word, or a glyph used to represent the first sound of the word it represents.

acrophony

English

Noun

(acrophonies)
  • Naming letters in an alphabetic writing system using words whose initial sounds are represented by the respective letters.

    • acrophone

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics, archaeology) The first sound of a word, or a glyph used to represent the first sound of the word it represents
  • * {{quote-journal, 1999, G. Brian Thompson et al., Learning correspondences between letters and phonemes without explicit instruction, Applied Psycholinguistics, doi=10.1017/S0142716499001022
    • , passage=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. }}
  • * {{quote-book, 2006, Gordon James Hamilton, The origins of the West Semitic alphabet in Egyptian scripts, page=26 citation
    • , passage=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.}}

    Derived terms

    * acrophony

    See also

    * (Acrophony)