acrophone
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]acrophone (plural acrophones)
- (linguistics, archaeology) The first sound of a word, or a glyph used to represent the first sound of the word it represents
- 1999, G. Brian Thompson et al., “Learning correspondences between letters and phonemes without explicit instruction”, in Applied Psycholinguistics, :
- 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.
- 2006, Gordon James Hamilton, The origins of the West Semitic alphabet in Egyptian scripts[1], page 26:
- 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.
