At 6 to 9 months , they did not detect differences in phonetic sounds in either language , but when they were older - 10 to 12 months - they were able to discriminate sounds in both .
Emory university professor mark bauerlein has reviewed the available research on this point , and he concludes that " teen blog writing sticks to the lingo of teens --- simple syntax , phonetic spelling , low diction --- and actually grooves bad habits . "
Google already offers a voice-driven web search app , which it backed with a big poster campaign around london earlier this year , with phonetic spellings of searches you might want to do - " pih-ka-di-lee sur-khus " or " tak-see num-buhz " .
It is a ticklish task , since mandarin characters can have both phonetic and descriptive meanings .
这是一项棘手的任务,因为汉字既有语音含义,又有描述性含义。
Party wanted to make mandarin china 's national language , simplify chinese characters and devise a new phonetic alphabet .
党想把汉语做为国家语言,把汉字进行简化,并且要设计出一套新的语音字母表。
And research is teasing apart the phonetic components of babble , along with the interplay of neurologic , cognitive and social factors .
科学研究正在分离婴儿语言的语音成分,神经、认知和社会因素的相互作用。
But many compounds have not succumbed to wear and tear or have changed their phonetic shape in a minimal way , and yet we still have trouble understanding their history .