Definition of Phonetic
relating to the sounds of speech
Examples of Phonetic in a sentence
The teacher helped the student with his phonetic errors and soon he was able to correctly sound out most words starting with the letter “r”. 🔊
The English language has several different phonetic categories that help separate speech sounds. 🔊
Because his phonetic pronunciation was off, it sounded like Trey was saying “li-beary” when he read the word “library.” 🔊
While the students read aloud, Mrs. Lewis listens and corrects any phonetic mistakes they make. 🔊
A phonetic workbook was used by the tutor to help the kindergartener learn all of the sounds of the alphabet. 🔊
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