Meanings
- not comparableNot acrophonic; having a name whose initial sound differs from the sound it represents.
Some languages have only acrophonic letter names, and others have some phonetically iconic but nonacrophonic names as well.
2014, Rebecca Treiman, Brett Kessler, How Children Learn to Write Words, page 1972 more examples
Children may have more to gain from acrophonic first letters than from nonacrophonic letters since it is easier to recognize /b/ in 'bear' than /es/ in 'stone.'
2009, Anna C. Both-de Vries, Adriana G. Bus, “It's All in the Name”, in Dorit Aram, Ofra Korat, editor, Literacy Development and Enhancement Across Orthographies and Cultures, page 10Letter-related factors included letter-name structures (e.g., CV or VC letter-name structures versus nonacrophonic letter names) and letter–sound ambiguity (e.g., letters that are associated with more than one sound or that share a sound with another letter).
2018, Christina M. Cassano, Susan M. Dougherty, Pivotal Research in Early Literacy, page 99
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