gennemicadj.
/dʒɪˈnɛmɪk/ In phonetics, of or pertaining to speech sounds after they have been uttered.
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gennemic1949
1921 G. Panconcelli-Calzia Experimentelle Phonetik 7 Die experimentelle Phonetik behandelt ihren Stoff zuerst in bezug auf die erzeugende Tätigkeit, d.h. genetisch (ἡ γένεσις), und dann in bezug auf das durch diese Tätigkeit entstandene Erzeugnis, d.h. gennemisch (τὸ γέννημα).]
1949 R.-M. S. Heffner Gen. Phonetics i. 3 The phonetician, in his effort to delimit and to describe the several distinct constituent speech sounds, can examine the movements of the speech organs which produce the sounds (genetic investigation), or he may examine the sounds as acoustic phenomena after they have been produced (gennemic investigation).
1969 Word 1967 23 254 These terms have been divided into three groups..(a) the first column refers to genetic (‘articulatory’), (b) the second to gennemic (acoustic) and (c) the third to energemic (auditory) phonetics.
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geˈnnemically adv.
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1953 L. F. Brosnahan Some Old Eng. Sound Changes 22 A vowel sound, considered gennemically, consists of a series of ‘distinctive frequency regions’.
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