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Terms vs Acrophone - What's the difference?

terms | acrophone |

As nouns the difference between terms and acrophone

is that terms is while acrophone is (linguistics|archaeology) the first sound of a word, or a glyph used to represent the first sound of the word it represents.

terms

English

Noun

(head)

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    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)