Sentence examples for a phonetic element from inspiring English sources

The Chinese traditionally divide the characters into six types (called liu shu, "six scripts"), the most common of which is xingsheng, a type of character that combines a semantic element (called a radical) with a phonetic element intended to remind the reader of the word's pronunciation.

On the one hand again, over 90% of the characters have a phonetic element in them.

The phonetic element is usually a contracted form of another character with the same pronunciation as that of the word intended.

In one instance, I saw a guy post the the phonetic elements of a song he was trying to name essentially random sounds he was humming and voila, the song was identified a mere hour later.

When the choice is between two labels sharing the same vowel the level of performance is near chance level, indicating that these subjects do not posses a neural mechanism devoted to the retrieval and association of the correct phonetic elements to a perceived pitch.

She points out that it is possible to read efficiently a script that combines ideograms and phonetic elements, something that many Chinese do daily.

This example can be generalized: many so-called "phonetic" elements in complex Chinese characters also have semantic content, and often are even more meaning-indicative than the signific.

In the late 1960s he started to work with sound effects and phonetic elements as compositional material, and came to rely less on absolute pitch; some works also use aspects of the breathing process as either a metaphor or technique for other musical processes.

Those abilities contribute to identifying small phonetic elements in speech, important cues that help speech perception.

Other studies have also shown greater levels of activation to multisensory stimuli involving phonetic elements in STS compared with novel auditory-visual stimuli.

Taylor concluded that the left face area patients "were unable to make effective use of phonetic elements of language" (Taylor, 1979, p. 171).