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.
Phonetics is a related branch of linguistics concerned with the actual properties of speech sounds , non-speech sounds, and how they are produced and perceived. Over the twentieth century, following the work of Noam Chomsky, linguistics came to be dominated by the Generativist school, which is chiefly concerned with explaining how human beings acquire language and the biological constraints on this acquisition.