phonic
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His team’s series of experiments showed that whales produce their wide repertoire of sounds with the same organ — the phonic lips in their nose, which vibrate much like a larynx does in humans.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2023
They used video from an endoscope, a thin, tube-like instrument, to image the phonic lips in harbor porpoises and bottlenosed dolphins in captivity.
From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2023
They saw that the phonic lips would briefly separate and then collide back together, causing a tissue vibration that would release sound into the surrounding water.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023
One of the forces behind this phonic revolution seems to have been sheer thespian ambition.
From The Guardian • Nov. 26, 2012
See Nursery School Curriculum— principle guiding selection, transition class, Daleroze, M. Jacques, rhythmic training, Dale, Miss, phonic reading books, Decimal system, Definition of education, Desert island play, Dewey, Prof., quotations, etc.,
From The Child under Eight by Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach)