(n.) A letter, character, or mark used to represent a particular sound.
(n.) A record of sounds made by a phonograph.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present investigation was designed to overcome the omissions of previous studies, and examined the ability to read 46 single phonograms and 46 single ideograms aloud in four groups of sufficiently large numbers of patients; namely, seven pure alexics, 23 Broca aphasics, 13 Wernicke aphasics, and seven patients with alexia and agraphia.
(2) Past case reports as well as some widely accepted handbooks and textbooks have concluded that a specific aphasia type or lesion site is associated with a particular impairment pattern of phonograms and ideograms in reading.
(3) Respiratory movements were measured with a chest pneumograph and evaluated in comparison with a phonogram and the identified spoken text.
(4) Information from phonogram words in the right hemisphere is probably less transferred to the left hemisphere than that from ideogram words.
(5) The patient was 76% correct in Japanese phonogram words and 92% correct in ideogram words in an interfield same-different judgment, that is, judging whether 2 one-letter words, one in the left hemifield and the other in the right, were the same or different.
(6) In addition to the clinical examination which remains indispensable, the aerophonometer, applicable to adults and children as from the age of 3, enables simultaneous measurement of the flow of buccal air, the flow of nasal air, and the buccal phonogram.
(7) In both cases, phonograms recorded over the generator area with a magnet in place revealed audible tones synchronous with each sensed event which allowed noninvasive documentation of a sensing problem.
(8) Correlating such curves with corresponding phonogram and physio-pathological data, we have been able to define an iconographic semiology, which may be useful in the functional pathology of the soft palate and indications of uvulo-pharyngoplasty for snoring.
(9) The size of saccadic eye movements and eye fixations during Japanese text reading (written in both hirakana phonograms and kanji ideograms) were analyzed.
(10) In contrast, Kana (phonogram or syllabogram) words are comparable with orthographically regular words or nonsense words, because the Kana writing system depends on strict phonological rules (almost one-to-one correspondence between syllable and syllabogram).
(11) A majority of the cases in each group showed that phonograms and ideograms were unselectively impaired.
(12) In his reading aloud and reading comprehension disturbances, ideogram words were less impaired than phonogram words, even when the number of letters in the words was the same.
(13) Owing to the Japanese language's unique writing system, which consists of phonograms and ideograms, reading impairments of Japanese brain-damaged patients have attracted the interest of many researchers.
(14) While sensory and motor dysfunctions can usually be neuroanatomically localized in individuals, impairments of certain high cortical functions, such as the reading of phonograms and ideograms, may not be correlated with damage to definite neuroanatomical structures.
(15) We present a Japanese man with selective Kana (phonogram) agraphia as a sequela of two cerebral infarctions in a part of the left angular gyrus and its adjoining posterior superior temporal gyrus and the left corona radiata.
(16) Phonogram reading was more severely disturbed in four cases among the Broca aphasics and in one case among the patients with alexia with agraphia.
(17) Reading difficulty was severe in words composed of phonograms (Kana), while reading of words composed of Ideograms (Kanji) was better preserved.
(18) Past reports linking a particular impairment pattern of phonogram and ideogram reading and a specific lesion site were studies of single cases, and their conclusions seem oversimplified.
(19) McKelvie and I never thought we'd get to do a third volume; we actually staged a wake for Phonogram in 2010.
(20) The study of writing performance suggested the following hypotheses: (1) motor engrams for limb praxis and writing may be dissociated, and (2) motor engrams for writing Kana (phonogram) and Kanji (ideogram) letters are represented on both hemispheres, although the hemisphere nondominant for language seems unable to combine graphemes into a correct meaningful sequence.
Rebus
Definition:
(n.) A mode of expressing words and phrases by pictures of objects whose names resemble those words, or the syllables of which they are composed; enigmatical representation of words by figures; hence, a peculiar form of riddle made up of such representations.
(n.) A pictorial suggestion on a coat of arms of the name of the person to whom it belongs. See Canting arms, under Canting.
(v. t.) To mark or indicate by a rebus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rebus, promised the Scottish author, will be "as stubborn and anarchic as ever", and will find himself in trouble with the author's latest creation, Malcolm Fox, of Edinburgh's internal affairs unit.
(2) The two great Edinburgh novels - pre-Rebus, of course - are James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, whose diableries and doublings take place partly in the Old Town's back courts and, though it doesn't mention the place at all, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Neither has much in the way of urban geography or familiar landmarks.
(3) Open Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, plus Sun noon-6pm in July and August The Oxford Bar Photograph: Alamy When the Inspector Rebus ITV series was relaunched in 2006, with Ken Stott stepping into the scuffed brogues of John Hannah, there was a feeling they had finally got the right man to play Ian Rankin's bruised copper.
(4) To evaluate these hypotheses, sentences were presented in which a pictured object replaced a word (rebus sentences).
(5) Standing in Another Man's Grave, the first book to feature Rebus since he retired in 2007's Exit Music, will be out this November, Rankin said on Tuesday.
(6) The data showed that Group B (rebuses) required fewer trials than Group A (abstract symbols) to meet criterion for Phase II, matching symbols to stimulus pictures.
(7) These are the things we are throwing away.” One of the libraries due to close is Bowhill, a place that Rankin, creator of detective John Rebus, said had been his “refuge and a place of constant wonder” when he was growing up.
(8) In a scene that could have come from a crime novel (and Rankin has said Rebus might have acted in the same way), Fulcher questioned a suspect, Chris Halliwell, on a remote hillside without access to legal advice in a desperate attempt to crack the case.
(9) "There's also a lot of similarities between Taggart and Rebus – that's the nature of crime," he said.
(10) Some say the couple wrote the finest crime series ever; that without them we would not have Ian Rankin's John Rebus or Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander.
(11) Gargan says that he accepts Rebus creator Ian Rankin's view that a novel that actually followed police procedure would be exceedingly dull, but he worries about the impact that fictional coppers have on the real article and wishes they were depicted in a more realistic way.
(12) The symbol sets included: nonidentical objects, miniature objects, identical colored photographs, nonidentical colored photographs, black-and-white photographs, Picture Communication Symbols (PCS), Picsyms, Rebus, Self-Talk, Blissymbols, and written words.
(13) And it certainly isn't Philip Marlowe , or John Rebus , or VI Warshawski (who manages to be twice as hardboiled as her male counterparts).
(14) Group A (abstract symbols) required fewer trials than Group B (rebuse) to meet criterion for Phase 111, matching printed words to stimulus pictures.
(15) Results indicated that treatment, consisting of a sound-referenced rebus approach, affected change in production of trained words as well as generalization to untrained words for targeted behaviors.
(16) Crime writers should depict more detectives as clean-living and balanced rather than damaged and hard-drinking like the Inspector Rebus of Ian Rankin's novels, a chief constable has said.
(17) It is another mystery for inspector Rebus to solve.
(18) Which is why, largely to reassure fans who may or may not have read Joyce but read Rebus by the yard, poor Ian Rankin can be seen counting exactly how many steps there are on Edinburgh's Fleshmarket Close.
(19) The lexical hypothesis would therefore lead one to expect that rebus sentences will be relatively difficult, whereas the conceptual hypothesis would predict that rebus sentences would be rather easy.
(20) Ian Rankin has only yanked detective inspector John Rebus out of retirement, but fans will still be rejoicing at news that the dour investigator is set to return later this year with a new mystery to solve.