Japanese words are spelled using characters that represent syllables, rather than short phonetic sounds, as in the English alphabet.

Rather than a traditional text, the work is constructed of phonetic sounds chosen on the basis of their timbre.

But it remained a mere phonetic sound, detached from identity.

Each kith has a specific phonetic sound at the end.

Natural languages are seen to arise from abstract, extramental objects (such as phonetic sounds).

The goal is to help people learn to sing by having the computer identify the different phonetic sounds that go into singing.

There [m] loss its unit of phonetic sound from half into quarter.

Letters reserve their own phonetic sound in separation and in combination in a word.

The phonetic sound of the reservoir's name was eventually spelled Yuba.