phonic
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His team’s series of experiments showed that whales produce their wide repertoire of sounds with the same organ — the phonic lips in their nose, which vibrate much like a larynx does in humans.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2023
The phonic lips consist of connective tissue and fat.
From Reuters ● Mar. 2, 2023
Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman and Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You revolve around the idea of phonic passing and “code switching”.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 20, 2018
Children are systematically taught around 40 phonic sounds and the combination of letters used to represent each sound.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2012
For example, if a pupil knows the meaning of a heard word, he may read it understandingly from getting its sound, as by phonic reconstruction.
From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Edward L. (Edward Lee) Thorndike
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