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He wrote out the lyrics phonetically, so when he had to sing an Italian word, it was written down exactly as it should be pronounced.
Since she didn't speak German, she would have to memorize her lines phonetically.
Although spelling English more phonetically might make it easier to read, it might also make it harder to understand.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: phonology & phonetics
accommodation
alliterative
alveolar
apheresis
aphesis
assonance
diphthong
homonym
intrusive
labial
labialize
labiodental
postconsonantal
retroflex
retroflexion
rhotic
rhyme
the International Phonetic Alphabet
unpronounceable
unrepeatable

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Phonetic transcription reveals that many of children's early uses of wh- words are phonetically reduced and part of fixed sequences.
It is just a fact that things written in a non-standard form of language are difficult to decipher, even if they are phonetically correct.
Second, though phonetically different, these two segment types show remarkable and consistent phonological patterning.
Very frequently, these little words are attached as clitics to the preceding or following word, which makes them phonetically indistinguishable from epenthetic vowels.
She thus dismisses the types of underspecified representations argued for in the mainstream literature in favour of far more phonetically based representations.
The specific hypothesis tested was that words that occur more often before vowels, an environment that phonetically favors retention, would exhibit less deletion overall.
It is not phonetically motivated and is not even consistent within one and the same item.
As compared to their classmates with short names, kindergartners with long names tended to produce spellings that contained a lower proportion of phonetically reasonable letters.
The third category of spellings consisted of characters that were neither letters from the child's own name nor phonetically reasonable spellings.
Changes in speaking rate alter phonetically relevant properties of the speech signal, including formant center frequencies and formant transition durations.
These examples show that they can either use the indicative form or pick up a rote-learned, possibly phonetically reduced form.
Is it possible that lexical factors are involved in this phonetically gradual development of the nasal vowels?
Phonetically, deletion is again viewed as overlap to the extent that the segment is not perceived independently of flanking elements.
In this paper, a phonetic account of phonological plosive assibilation has been proposed as a case of a phonetically based phonological process.
Child productions were phonetically transcribed, and judged correct if all target phonemes were produced as intended in the ambient language.
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