phonogram
- noun
- /ˈfoʊnəˌɡræm/
- Specialized
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fonograma
- Better known as the Rome Convention, this treaty secured protection in "phonograms" of performances for performers of audiovisual works against unauthorized broadcasts or recordings of their performances.
- producers of phonograms
Examples
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Hieroglyphs consist of ideograms—signs that stand for ideas or things—and phonograms—signs that represent sounds in the language.
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This step could also be incorporated into instruction on larger phonograms such as vowel teams, rimes, and affixes.
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I'm trying to fix this old phonogram
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I just need the phonograms.
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Her work in pre-dynastic phonograms is pretty remarkable, actually.
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Rime: spelling patterns, phonograms, or word families.
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In the mid-1990s, the Phonogram Archiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, under the supervision of its then director, Dietrich Schuller, digitized the wax cylinders.
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In language learning, a phonogram is often used to teach students how to recognize sounds in words.
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The teacher explained that a phonogram can represent a single sound or a combination of sounds in writing.
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Children learn to read by identifying familiar phonograms that match the sounds they hear in spoken language.
Synonyms
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A written or printed mark that stands for a sound in an alphabet
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A mark, like a letter, that stands for something
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A written sign that stands for a sound in a language, like A or B
A written sign that shows one speech sound
A written sign that stands for a sound, word, or idea
A written sign such as a letter that shows a sound or meaning
A written letter that shows a sound in a language
Two letters that make one sound, like sh in shoe
A pair of letters that make one sound, like 'sh' in 'shoe'
A written mark, like a letter, that stands for a sound or idea
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word phonogram comes from Greek parts phon- ('sound') and -gram ('something written'), and you can see the same roots in phone and telegram. So, a phonogram is a written sign that stands for a sound or a syllable.