Textualist: A textualist is an originalist who gives primary weight to the text and structure of the Constitution. The text means what it would have been understood to mean by an ordinary person at the time it was written. Textualists often are skeptical of the ability of judges to determine collective intent..
Noun. 1. phonetic alphabet-an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech. sound alphabet. alphabet-a character set that includes letters and is used to write a language. visible speech-a phonetic alphabet invented by Melville Bell in the 19th century. phonetic symbol-a written character used in phonetic transcription of represent a particular speech sound.
Of or relating to phonetics. 2. Representing the sounds of speech with a set of distinct symbols, each designating a single sound: phonetic spelling. 3. Of, relating to, or being features of pronunciation that are not phonemically distinctive in a language, as aspiration of consonants or vowel length in English.