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phonic

[fon-ik, foh-nik] / ˈfɒn ɪk, ˈfoʊ nɪk /
ADJECTIVE
acoustic
Synonyms


ADJECTIVE
auricular
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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

They used video from an endoscope, a thin, tube-like instrument, to image the phonic lips in harbor porpoises and bottlenosed dolphins in captivity.

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

This was not until after it had been tested in his own family and some others, where I had introduced the phonic method.

From Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mary E. Mann




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