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.
Alphabets, or phonemic alphabets, are sets of letters that represent consonants and vowels. In some languages, such as Czech, each letter or combination of letters represents one sound, while in others, such as English, letters might represent a variety of sounds, or the same sounds can be written in different ways.