toneticadj.

1922 H. E. Palmer Eng. Intonation i. 6 The teacher articulates one or more syllables and calls upon the students to write down in tonetic symbols what they think they have heard.

1924 D. M. Beach in Bantu Stud. Dec. 90 The key to all tonetic transcription is the principle of the toneme,..a group of tones within a given language.

1958 R. Kingdon Groundwork Eng. Intonation p. xxix The tonetic stress-mark system used in this book was developed..in an endeavour to find the most practical system of marking intonation.

1964 M. Schubiger in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 256 Even without extra tonetic prominence, it [sc. the self-pronoun] increases the weight of the head.

1981 Word 1980 31 151 (heading) Intonation: tonetic stress marks versus levels versus configurations.

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tonetically.

1938 D. M. Beach Phonetics Hottentot Lang. ix. 125 In Hottentot, as in Chinese, two roots which are identical phonetically may differ tonetically when pronounced in isolation.

1975 Language 51 561 A considerable residue of cases still remains which must be analysed in terms of underlying homonyms yielding tonetically distinct forms in many environments.

1921 in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1921–4 (1928) 11 A paper on Tonetics by Mr. D. H. [sic] Beach.

1921 H. E. Palmer Princ. Lang.-study i. 37 Learned specialist in ‘tonetics’ (or whatever the science of tones will come to be called).

1926 Bantu Stud. July 198 Phonetics treats of phones, phone-groups, and phonemes: tonetics treats of tones, tone-groups, and tonemes.