phonic has definitions from the field of phonetics
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[ adjective ] pertaining to the phonic method of teaching reading

Used in print

(Jesse W. Grimes and Wesley Allinsmith, "Compuls...)

We speculate that compulsives in the unstructured schools are under greater strain because of the lack of systemization in their school setting , but that their need to organize ( for comfort ) is so intense that they struggle to induce the phonic rules and achieve in_spite_of the lack of direction from the environment .

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phonics

2
[ adjective ] relating to speech

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language

3
[ adjective ] (phonetics) of or relating to speech sounds

Synonyms

phonetic

Examples

"phonetic transcription"

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phone

4
[ adjective ] pertaining to phones or speech sounds

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phone

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