Sentence examples for phonographic writing from inspiring English sources

Syllables are the most readily distinguishable units of speech; consequently, the earliest of the sound-based, or phonographic, writing systems are syllabic.

Chinese script, as mentioned above, is logographic; it differs from phonographic writing systems whose characters or graphs represent units of sound in using one character or graph to represent a morpheme.

Fripp wrote, "The phonographic copyright in these performances is operated by Discipline Global Mobile on behalf of the artists, with whom it resides, contrary to common practice in the record industry.

• Writing.

Writing (letter writing).

If Brooks writes like Fitzgerald, documenting tragedy beneath the glamour that both charmed and repelled her, Miller is more like a Dreiser of anecdotes, endowed as she was with a seeming total recall, a photographic and phonographic memory that vigorously and artlessly conjures an era and its conflicts through the accretion of surprising details and precise, incisive observations.

However, because of the enormous number of Chinese words that sound the same, to have carried through the phonographic principle would have resulted in a writing system in which many of the words could be read in more than one way.

In the 8th century the phonographic principle was applied more systematically in a writing system called man'yōgana, a syllabary very similar in form to the Semitic alphabet.

The next major stage in the evolution of Sumerian writing was the adoption of the phonographic principle, the use of a sign to represent a common sound rather than a common meaning.

Western scripts went farthest in the phonographic direction, representing words by means of syllables and syllables by means of consonantal writing systems and eventually developing a full vocalic alphabet.

In October 1909 he acquired an Edison phonograph and became one of the first to use phonographic recording as a folklore research tool.