What's the difference between phonetic and phonics?

Phonetic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use.
  • (a.) Representing sounds; as, phonetic characters; -- opposed to ideographic; as, a phonetic notation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three male and 2 female subjects produced six repetitions of 12 utterances that were initiated and terminated by vowels and consonants of differing phonetic features.
  • (2) The research, performed on 80 Romanian-speaking aphasics showed that the frequency of various types of phonetic errors is quite different in various languages, as presented in aphasiologic references.
  • (3) Animals provide a model of auditory-level processing in the absence of phonetic-level processing, and test whether the existence of a phenomenon such as categorical perception necessitates specialized mechanisms.
  • (4) A novel approach to speech recognition, on the basis of a multidimensional multivalued phonetic-feature description of speech signals, is presented and evaluated.
  • (5) Phonetic distractors generated greater interference than semantic distractors at all delay levels, and semantic distractors generated greater interference than random distractors.
  • (6) Ss in phonological priming conditions systematically modified their responses on unrelated priming trials in perceptual identification, and they were slower and more errorful on unrelated trials in lexical decision than were Ss in phonetic priming conditions.
  • (7) The analysis includes a phonetic analysis, a substitution analysis, and a phonological process analysis.
  • (8) Single-word repetitions by 4 brain-damaged adults with apraxia of speech (AOS) but without concomitant aphasia were transcribed using a standard narrow phonetic transcription system.
  • (9) These differences increased systematically with the phonetic complexity of the task.
  • (10) In another experiment, interdependence of two phonetic judgments was found in responses based on the fricative noise and the vocalic formants of a fricative-vowel syllable.
  • (11) This is in contrast with the classical (British-English) phonetic tradition which allows the occurrence of two strong stresses within certain words, which are then called 'double-stressed'.
  • (12) Specific features of Delaire's operation when compared with Rosenthal's inferior pedicle pharyngoplasty are described, and phonetic results obtained in a recent series of 10 patients operated upon using the former procedure reported.
  • (13) Phonetic transcriptions of 48 babbling samples from 11 normally hearing subjects, aged 4-18 months, and 39 samples from 14 hearing-impaired (HI) subjects, aged 4-39 months, were analyzed to determine the inventory of consonantal phones for each recording session.
  • (14) It has been found that in senile dementia the multilevel and multiaspect functional system of speech is impaired at both, a lower, phonetic, and higher speech (a phonological analysis) levels.
  • (15) A standardized, phonetically selected text, seems to improve the discrimination power.
  • (16) The most frequent prosthetic complications were phonetic problems in the maxilla only (10 cases), acrylic fractures in bridges (3 cases) and fractures or distortion of the metallic framework (2 cases).
  • (17) Possible applications of the model are to the evolution of semantic alarm calls in vervet monkeys and the phonetic aspects of human language.
  • (18) Intelligibility was evaluated from phonetic transcriptions of the speech samples.
  • (19) To do this, sets of letter strings in which orthography and familiarity were factorially combined were used as the basis for physical, phonetic, semantic, and lexical judgments.
  • (20) A digital phonetic data base under current construction is outlined.

Phonics


Definition:

  • (n.) See Phonetics.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ladybird: I’m Ready to Spell has a space theme, and is based on the phonics that kids will be learning in their first years at school.
  • (2) That suggests a social problem with deeper roots, as revealed by the latest results from the government's phonics check – gauging reading skills among five and six-year-olds at state primary schools – which showed that 180,000 children in England failed to meet the DfE's standard.
  • (3) In English, the expert group criticises the draft, saying "an over-emphasis on synthetic phonics in the early years excludes other strategies and is likely to lower standards of reading".
  • (4) 22 female patients with aphonia underwent laryngoscopic and phonic examinations, psychiatric evaluation, psychological testing and biographical history-taking.
  • (5) Despite the overt nature of most motor and phonic tic phenomena, the development of valid and reliable scales to rate tic severity has been an elusive goal.
  • (6) Two hyperactive boys who had developed motor and phonic tics during stimulant treatment reacted similarly to low doses of haloperidol and thioridazine.
  • (7) Tourette Syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric movement disorder characterized by the presence of multiple motor and phonic tics.
  • (8) None of the patients receiving nifedipine improved, but treatment with flunarizine significantly decreased both motor and phonic tic severity and frequency in all but one patient.
  • (9) iPad Ladybird: I’m Ready to Spell (£2.99) Released by book publisher Penguin, this is aimed mainly at schoolchildren preparing for their first phonics screening check, with three space-themed mini-games designed to test their spelling skills.
  • (10) A motion approved by the conference also called for "an alliance of forces" to oppose and boycott the phonics check, a reading and literacy assessment applied to pupils in England at the end of year one.
  • (11) The YGTSS provides an evaluation of the number, frequency, intensity, complexity, and interference of motor and phonic symptoms.
  • (12) At the beginning of the school year, 80 first graders, half receiving phonics instruction and half receiving whole word instruction, were asked to spell, read aloud, and recognize 60 regular and exception words.
  • (13) All aspects of phonics, but especially the sounds of the short vowels, were a problem.
  • (14) Correct diagnosis of TS is important to appropriate treatment, rather than assuming that motor and phonic tics and other associated TS symptoms are necessarily a function of a more pervasive developmental disorder in a disturbed mentally retarded person.
  • (15) Tourette's syndrome (TS) is a neuropsychiatric disorder characterised by changing motor and phonic tics, compulsive actions, and other behavioural symptoms.
  • (16) Tourette's syndrome (TS) is a chronic neuropsychiatric disorder of childhood onset that is characterized by multiple motor and phonic tics that wax and wane in severity and an array of behavioral problems including some forms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) (1).
  • (17) During phonic analysis, the teacher directed the child to attend to various phonetic elements of the error word and to "sound out" the word.
  • (18) Nine hearing aids were evaluated three times in each of the four systems: a standard Bruel and Kjaer apparatus, a Fonix 5000, and both a Phonic Ear HC 1000 and HC 2000.
  • (19) We do some things very traditionally: children learn to read with synthetic phonics, they learn grammar.
  • (20) We studied nine patients with motor and phonic tics and other features of Tourette's syndrome, who developed persistent dystonia in addition to their tics.